Google Bangs

An extension to add duckduckgo bangs to google and startpage searches

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This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2022-10-14

By: jam1garner

Users: 257

Rating: 3.00 (3)

Version: 1.2 (Last updated: 2019-01-05)

Creation date: 2019-01-05

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

webRequest
tabs
webRequestBlocking
activeTab
https://duckduckgo.com/bang_lite.html
https://*.google.com/search*
https://*.startpage.com/do/dsearch*

Size: 25.43K

URLs: Website

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An extension to add duckduckgo bangs to google searches.

Bangs are quick ways to search plenty of sites. For example if you want to quickly search wikipedia for apples you'd type "!wiki Apples" and it will either automatically open the page if it exists, or searches it.

More info: https://duckduckgo.com/bang Source: https://github.com/jam1garner/chrome-bangs

User reviews

This extension simply does not work. If I try to use any of the bangs (e.g. !yt or !w), I just see search results. I've tried this on Google, on StartPage, and in the address bar. It seems that if I omit the search term, it takes me to the home page of the respective website, but this is not very useful.

Gerard O'Neill, 2022-07-10

I am currently not able to use bangs on startpage. If I open up google.com and then write a bang such as "!wiki test", then it works, just not startpage, or the omnibar with startpage as the default search. I have a suspicion that this is a matter of permissions, since I didn't find "startpage.*" listed in the domains permitted for the extension to read. I unfortunately could not find a way to add a permission myself though, to test the hypothesis. Any chance this could be patched? I really appreciate the extension existing!