Lucky Now Supports !Bang Syntax
It took some time, but I’ve finally added the 13,000+ bang shortcuts to Lucky. (It was a somewhat labor-intensive process.)
Bangs in Lucky are faster than DuckDuckGo’s because they don’t need to go through a server.
Random things about bangs you probably already know
Bangs are special keywords that allow you to search other websites directly. You’ve probably used the popular ones, like !g for Google, !a for Amazon, !w for Wikipedia, and !yt for YouTube.
But there are some lesser-known and weirder bangs. For example:
!compose: create a new mail in Gmail.!fren,!ites: translate French to English, translate Italian to Spanish, etc.!inp(images, no Pinterest): image search, but exclude results from pinterest.com.!ade,!auk: amazon.de, amazon.co.uk, etc.!iosor!osx: search the Apple developer site.!rgi <url>: reverse image search.!bang: search all!bangs.
Unlike Firefox’s smart keywords, bangs work anywhere in your search query. You don’t have to go back to the start to add your !g, just insert it whenever you want.
Also, bangs are stackable. So if you want to search Google for, say, Daring Fireball, you can do this: !df !g your query. This will first transform into a site search for daringfireball.net, then the site search query will be passed to Google.
So if you’re a DuckDuckGo user and you’ve been holding out on Lucky because of bangs, now is a good time to give it a go. Lucky supports bang syntax starting with version 1.1.0. The update is set to be pushed to you within the next 7 days, but if you can’t wait, here’s a direct link to the update.