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Specific DuckDuckGo search redirects to Google
6 years ago
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I wanted to watch "Nande Koko ni Sensei ga! uncensored" so that's what I searched for. I used DuckDuckGo on the PaleMoon browser like I do 90% of the time. This time it redirected to Google search. I was like WTF?! I don't even have Google in my list of search engines. I couldn't figure out why it happened so I tried it on the Water Fox and Ice Dragon browsers. Same result. No other search redirects to Google. Just "Nande Koko ni Sensei ga! uncensored". So..what's happening here?
bugmenot665
~bugmenot665
I think I know what it's about! DuckDuckGo has this thing called Bangs, which is basically shortcuts to all kinds of other search engines inside DuckDuckGo, activated with exclamation marks. Apparently "ga!" redirects to Google Australia. But I'm pretty sure all search engines ignore punctuation anyway, so skipping the exclamation mark should be fine.
