I started using DuckDuckGo as my default search engine recently. I thought it was cool that you can access the terminal access for quicker searches at - https://duckduckgo.com/tty/
Getting Started
- Basic information given with
- To search for "Vancouver"
$
vancouver
[:1] Vancouver
A city of southwest British Columbia, Canada, on the Strait of Georgia opposite Vancouver Island.
A city of southwest British Columbia, Canada, on the Strait of Georgia opposite Vancouver Island.
-- Type 'm' for more results and 'r' for related topics.
- We could either then type
- :1 this will open a browser with the link
- m produces more results
- r gives related topics
- Clear the screen
:clear
- Show history
$ :history
+-----------+------------------------+------------------------+
| Query | Search Performed | Number of results seen |
+-----------+------------------------+------------------------+
| vancouver | less than a minute ago | 1 |
| 1 | less than a minute ago | 1 |
| 2 | less than a minute ago | 1 |
+-----------+------------------------+------------------------+
- Font Size can be changed :
- :+ increase font
- :- decrease font
- You can use 'surfraw' to search Duckduckgo in Lynx quickly
- Install :
- Note you need to change one default in file /etc/xdg/surfraw/conf from 'yes' to 'no' for text only option to:
defyn SURFRAW_graphical no
- Search with :
$ sr duckduckgo vancouver
- Which will open it up in Lynx
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