Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Customizable DuckDuckGo Search Bangs Service
I love DDG !bangs so much, that I kept finding myself in need of custom search !bangs... So I built them! I absolutely love DDG's search !bangs! ... even more than their stance on privacy. If you've ever found yourself wishing for a custom search !bang you're in the same boat as me :) Sure, sometimes submitting a public !bang is the way to go... But not always. Maybe you want to override the default !weather or you want a custom !bang for an internal tool used by your employer. You can create your custom search !bangs at https://interrobang.online
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Customizable DuckDuckGo Search Bangs Service launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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DuckDuckGo: Bang▲307Search thousands of sites directly from DuckDuckGo
2015 · duckduckgo.com · its alternatives →
- 2UD
2012 · duckduckgoog.com · its alternatives →
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Replicate DuckDuckGo !bang's in Firefox using Keymarks! - jameshealyio/bang-bookmarks
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I made this Firefox extension to extend upon DuckDuckGo's idea of bangs (check https://duckduckgo.com/bangs if you aren't familiar with them) and also allow the use of any search engine with them. I found DuckDuckGo's bangs fascinating, but was disappointed by how little search engines inherit that feature. And on top of it, DuckDuckGo has the "!" bang that jumps to the first search result but other search engines offering bangs like Brave Search, searx, You.com don't seem to have that. I also thought that the "!" bang could be extended with the ability to jump to…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 5FD
I like to use DuckDuckGo-style bangs and snaps, they are fast and efficient shortcuts. However, neither Kagi nor DuckDuckGo resolves them as quickly as I would like and subjectively Google has better search results than DuckDuckGo. After trying a few local alternatives eg. unduck, unduckified, I wasn't satisfied, the ones I tried briefly loaded a page before redirecting causing visible page flickering, still took time to resolve the actual redirect and lacked advanced features (address-bar autocomplete). Flashbang avoids that by handling the redirect in a Service Worker, before the browser…
Jul 2026 · flashbang-dyr.pages.dev · its alternatives →
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I've been working on a little open source [1] search engine, nilch. I noticed that nearly all well known search engines, including the alternative ones, tend to be run by companies of various sizes with the goal to make money, so they either fill your results with ads or charge you money, and I dislike this because search is the backbone of the internet and should not be commercial, so it runs in a not-for-profit style and aims to survive on donations. Additionally I'm personally really sick of AI in my search results so I got rid of that, and I wanted DuckDuckGo bangs so it supports all of…
Dec 2025 · nilch.org · its alternatives →
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:duck: DuckDuckGo from the terminal. Contribute to jarun/ddgr development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Add !bang searches to Google. Contribute to jpopesculian/banoogle development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Privacy, simplified. Available on all major platforms.
2018 · duckduckgo.com · its alternatives →
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Redirect a percentage of your Google searches to DuckDuckGo
2019 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! Wanted to share my weekend project, Giggle. I started using Google's Programmable Search Engine recently and needed an easy way to use it. Let me know what you think!
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 13FS
Hi HN! This started late last year as an afternoon project to play around with ElasticSearch, and then I kept thinking of new features I wanted to add. I still have a lot of things I want to build, but now seemed like a good time to put it out there: even if the results aren’t nearly the quality I’d like, I’ve still found it useful and I want to show it off! I’ve been working on it since September 2021, but only in fits and starts. The entire thing runs on a computer in my living room (there’s a picture on the About page); I haven’t done any load testing so we’ll see how it holds up.
2022 · search.feep.dev · its alternatives →
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:duck: DuckDuckGo from the terminal. Contribute to jarun/ddgr development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Add a custom DuckDuckGo search box to your website
2019 · ddg.patdryburgh.com · its alternatives →
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Dokkio Sidebar▲137Search smarter, auto-tag & organize, without the tab chaos
2022 · dokkio.com · its alternatives →
- 17DG
2016 · duckgobang.com · its alternatives →
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- 19RA
In the sprit of releasing to the public early, I would like to share a search engine/portal I have been building in my spare time: https://www.runnaroo.com Why: I started to not be able to easily tell the different between ads and organic search results in other search engines (even on DuckDuckGo), and I have been disappointed with recent UI changes in a lot of the major search engines. My main guiding rule when adding features has been to ask, "is it better for the user?" Important to know: I still believe Google currently returns the most relevant web results, so like…
2020 · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’m pleased to release my “surf engine” to the public for you to try. This is might be for you if you’ve grown frustrated with commercialised SERPs, and want to find the other websites are (still) out there. Kudos to Marginalia Search for showing that it’s possible to build a search engine as a hobbyist: https://search.marginalia.nu/ Feedback of all kinds very welcome! Ali
2022 · highbrow.se · its alternatives →
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14,000+ instant search shortcuts from your address bar
Jul 2026 · flashbang.tech · its alternatives →
- 23SL
So a while ago I was thinking it would be neat to build a site that had the most absolute utility. The idea I came up with was a site to store those little protips that are super useful, if you know them ahead of time. I hired a guy to work on it with me, and ClueDB was born: http://cluedb.com/ Please give it a whirl (it uses Twitter auth as login but doesn't tweet anything) and tell me what you think! (Various trivia: My first try at a project coded by someone else and "product managed" by me. Runs on Flask + MongoDB. Also, this is totally unrelated to my startup.)
2011 · cluedb.com · its alternatives →
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Browser with our best-in-class privacy essentials.
2022 · duckduckgo.com · its alternatives →
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- DuckDuckGo: Bang alternatives
- Use DuckDuckGo for !bangs and Google for everything else alternatives
- Bang Bookmarks – replicate DuckDuckGo bangs in Firefox using Keymarks alternatives
- Banger–A Firefox extension to extend DDG's bangs alternatives
- Flashbang – DuckDuckGo bangs resolved locally with a Service Worker alternatives
- My not-for-profit search engine with no ads, no AI, & all DDG bangs alternatives
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