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They're actually reasonably good. I often find that they do weird things like linking to non-US versions of websites instead of a US version. So I end up on the British or Dutch version of a website, with prices quoted in GBP or EUR.

I find myself using the "!g" shortcut (which takes me to Google) more often than I'd have liked to.

Thankfully, Apple offers this as one of their search engine options (despite being paid "tres comas" every year from Google to be the default search engine).



I cant give up DDG cause those shortcuts are just too damn good. !m and !ud


Annoyingly, !g is right next to !h on most keyboards, and I often find myself searching through Haskell documentation instead of searching Google.




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