"I'm feeling lucky bang"

Lillecarl

Hi team Kagi! 😃 I'll just start by saying, thanks for an amazing product!

I've added a bang called !ez that redirects to the empty bang search in ddg. I use this for typing my way into something without typing the url (think "!ez nixpkgs github", which puts me on https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs).

Since we have to be a bit conservative about searches it'd be useful if this was a builtin feature, I feel like I'm using a workaround to get around my bad search habits right now.

bang string: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!+%s

Another example:
!ez plumbum docs -> https://plumbum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

KagiForMe

Lillecarl
This is very cool, but I have one question. Are you not just using DDG at this point? Because kagi isn't handling the search at all, just redirecting you to DDG, which in turn serves you the webpage? I feel like there is not a real benefit to it, as you can just add an @ddg shortcut to your browsers search bar. Did I miss something?

I feel like this is (if privacy is a selling point for you) a downgrade.

Vlad

Lillecarl You can crate custom bangs including one that will redirect to this use case. Settings -> Advanced -> Custom Bangs or https://kagi.com/settings?p=custom_bangs

Is this what you asked for?

Lillecarl

KagiForMe
Indeed, because the search is super easy I'd like it not to count against my search quota, which bangs dont. Privacy wise it's indeed a downgrade

blosh
Does this count as a bang or as a search? 😃

Vlad
I've already added the bang, but it is a workaround around not running out of searches too quickly. Some searches are "easy enough" to not need the full force of Kagi. If what "blosh" says doesn't count against quota then we could consider this already a feature 😄

blosh

It is a built-in feature.

Just append a space and an exclamation mark to your search query and it will load the first hit:

nixpkgs github !

... and Bob's your uncle.

z64

Lillecarl The ! bang that blosh mentions still counts as a search. We must run a search in order to find the top result for us to redirect you to, and we (Kagi) still need to pay for that search.

The ez bang that you suggested is the best thing for you if

You do not want to have the search count towards your billing
You are fine with sending the search to DDG

However, we are planning on changing our plans to $10/mo for unlimited searches, so that might make this moot, and you can just use Kagi's ! freely.

Lillecarl

z64 That sounds great, I added the bang mostly because of "anxiety" of running out (even though I wouldn't mind paying a couple dollars more) and "engineers" love solving problems that doesn't exist!

The new 10$ unlimited plan sounds great, thanks again for the great product! 😄