Two things to make Bangs much better

Two pieces of feedback regarding bangs:

  1. If I just type a bang with no content, e.g. !dnd, it shows the search results for “!dnd”. On DuckDuckGo, doing this would take you directly https://www.dndbeyond.com. This is the preferred behaviour.
  2. Bangs aren’t region-aware. I am in the UK. If I type e.g. “!am socks”, it will take me to https://www.amazon.com/s?k=socks - the US Amazon website. On DuckDuckGo, it would take me to https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=socks&tag=duc0c-21 - automatically taking me to the UK Amazon website. I know that I can just type !amuk, but !am is shorter - and why should the US site be the default? US-centric thinking is bad.

@Ultra_HR thanks for reaching out.

  1. On my end, I do get the behavior you’re describing. If I type in !dnd sword I’m directed to the following page:
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  2. I’m actually not sure about how bangs work with respect to region — let me reach out to the Search team about this for more info.

@Ultra_HR,
Search team says that they have region detection for bangs on the todo list so you should expect to see this functionality in future versions.