• Almighty5617@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    The “!g” is part of something called “bangs” on DuckDuckGo. Bangs are prefixes to redirect your query to another search engine. For example “!g How to pet a cat” will redirect you to Google, searching for “How to pet a cat”

    Other useful bangs are “!m” for maps, “!gi” for Google images, “!so” for stack overflow.

    You can find more about it at the bangs page: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs