Note: This is no longer maintained. But feel free to use it if it works in your browser. I don't maintain it anymore because Vivaldi is now my main browser, where I can have a search bar next to the URL. URL bar has Google as the default search, and the search bar has DDG as the default. So I can now easily access the bangs without using this extension.
A very simple Chrome/Firefox extension that enables a user to search websites directly from the address bar.
It is based on bangs provided by DuckDuckGo and works in a similar way. The two main differences are:
- DuckDuckGo follows the format
!bang search-term, whereas Omnibang follows! bang search-term. - Omnibang works even if DuckDuckGo isn't your default search engine.
FAQ: Chrome and Firefox already provide custom search engines. What's different here?
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Browser custom search works when the website you want to search is already present in your history and cache.
Bangs works independent of history and cache. -
The keywords of custom search by default are the complete domain names. You can shorten them, but its manual work.
DuckDuckGo provides 100s of predefined short-codes (bangs) which are easy to remember. Some bangs are listed at the bottom of this page.
| Some | Popular | Bangs |
|---|---|---|
GitHub: gh |
Stack Overflow: so |
Stack Exchange: se |
Mozilla Developer Network: mdn |
MS Developer Network: msdn |
Codepen: cpen |
Reddit: r |
Quora: q |
Amazon: a |
Wikipedia: w |
Medium: med |
Bing: b |
Google: g |
DuckDuckGo: ddg |
Yahoo: y |
Google Maps: maps |
Facebook: fb |
Twitter: tw |
Spotify: spt |
SoundCloud: sc |
YouTube: yt |
See the complete list of bangs here.
Follow these links:
- Port to Opera
- Port to Vivaldi
Copyright (c) 2018-19 Avinash Pandey. Licensed under MIT License.