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Comment by valarauca1 | Hacker News Reader

To any readers. I highly suggest you try DuckDuckGo, especially for tech related/documentation searches.

The !{language} searches are incredibly powerful. Taking you to the language's documentation repo, and displaying results only there. Which I find hugely help for learning new languages.

I've switched over completely for my day to day searches. Google offers next to nothing I can't get with DuckDuckGo.

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"[language] bla bla !so" is also pretty neat. It searches Stackoverflow and filters by language tag.

I use it occasionally, what does !{language} search mean?

Google it

Say you want to refer to the JavaScript docs, you can type:

"!javascript function" and it will take you immediately to the documentation.

Thanks. I was confused by language for various countries...

This works sporadically for me, and the autocomplete text is completely wrong: http://i.imgur.com/v3skzTX.png

That search, "!ruby string", also redirects to... a google search?

Luckily DuckDuckGo is partially open, you can help contribute fixes :)

Duck duck go does not share search data with any open search database e.g. YaCy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy

It'd be pretty great if they did!

!java means limit search to Java documentation

!scala means limit search to Scala documentation

!golang means limit search to Go documentation

!cpp means limit search to C++ documentation

etc.

see (https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html) for more.

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