Don't know when this happen, but the Chrome for Android omnibox is infinitely more useful now.

"404 - User No Longer Available" (toni-cipriani) 05/19/2017 at 07:41 • Filed to: Android

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Finally Google allowed OpenSearch and setting your own search engine on Android Chrome.

Set mine to DuckDuckGo immediately when I saw that, now I can search on any engine with a bang.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > 404 - User No Longer Available 05/19/2017 at 08:14

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Hmmm, I never really used anything other than google, except for early internet days, I was using Altavista and Ask Jeeves back then, ha! Anyway, what makes others better?

404 - User No Longer Available > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs 05/19/2017 at 08:29

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Because once you set it as the default, you can access almost every other with a code: https://duckduckgo.com/bang

And it’s not limited to search engines, for example, if you enter a tracking number and add !ups, it’ll search UPS tracking for you directly.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > 404 - User No Longer Available 05/19/2017 at 09:12

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But when I google a tracking number google pulls up a link to the UPS page for me as well, probably takes about as long as typing !ups?

404 - User No Longer Available > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs 05/19/2017 at 09:43

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Yeah but you have to wait for the Google page, works better IMO if I know where I’m going than to click a Google link after it loads.

Another example: if I want a price history for an Amazon item, add !camel in front of the link, takes me straight to that item on CamelCamelCamel.

RyanFrew > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs 05/22/2017 at 10:36

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DuckDuckGo doesn’t collect information about you. It’s a phenomenal search engine, but first gained traction amongst people looking for privacy.