Yet Another Bangs anywhere Firefox extension
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Was this necessary? Probably not. There are dozens of extensions that already provide a similar functionality to Yang! (see Related Extensions).
BUT, I wasn't able to find one that simultaneously:
- Allowed to set custom bangs.
- Worked on my phone.
- Supported bangs directly from the URL bar.
- Redirected immediately, without querying to DuckDuckGo to resolve the bang1.
- Worked on every major search engine out there.
Yang! is an add-on that doesn't feel old.
1 This greatly reduces the redirection times, as shown by DuckDuckGo !Bangs but Faster.
Simply install the extension and then use any of the supported DuckDuckGo bangs.
Bangs can be used at the beginning or at the end of the query, e.g.:
!deepl I love bangs and I'm not talking about hair.is equivalent to
I love bangs and I'm not talking about hair. !deeplYou can of course always create your own custom bangs!
Bangs are resolved locally, without sending any request to DuckDuckGo, which makes the process much faster.
Yang! will be triggered directly from your URL bar and the following sites:
| Name | URL |
|---|---|
| https://www.google.com/ | |
| Bing | https://www.bing.com/ |
| Yahoo | https://www.yahoo.com/ |
| Ecosia | https://www.ecosia.org/ |
| DuckDuckGo | https://duckduckgo.com/ |
| Brave Search | https://search.brave.com/ |
| Startpage | https://www.startpage.com/ |
| Swisscows | https://swisscows.com/ |
| SearX(NG) | https://searx.space/ |
| Mojeek | https://www.mojeek.com/ |
| Qwant | https://www.qwant.com/ |
| Kagi | https://kagi.com/ |
| You.com | https://you.com/ |
| Perplexity AI | https://www.perplexity.ai/ |
| Naver | https://www.naver.com/ |
| Baidu | https://www.baidu.com/ |
| Yandex | https://yandex.com/ |
| AOL | https://www.aol.com/ |
| Murena | https://spot.ecloud.global/ https://spot.murena.io/ |
| MetaGer | https://metager.de/ |
| Dogpile | https://www.dogpile.com/ |
| Ask.com | https://www.ask.com/ |
| Seznam.cz | https://search.seznam.cz/ |
Is your favorite search engine not on the list? Open an issue and we'll add it!
Why does Yang! need permissions on a 300+ sites?
Instead of requesting data access on all sites, we granularly
specify the search-engine sites that Yang! supports (which yeah, they're quite
a few). You can find which sites we request permissions for in the
manifest.json.
Does it work on Google Chrome?
No clue, I don't have that package installed on my system. I will not give support to it myself, but PRs are welcome.
There are many, but these are the ones that were most inspiring:
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Yang! logo is a modification of the original DuckDuckGo logo. Its use is solely transformative, i.e., intended with a further purpose or different character, and does not substitute under any circumstance for the original use of the work.