Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

mhoye @mhoye@mastodon.social

11/20/2025, 3:19:46 PM

Public

Small quality of life improvement in Firefox: set duckduckgo lite as your search and make sure the "Show search terms in the address bar on results pages" option is checked.

https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite

Is there a way to decide from the shape of a search term what engine to use automatically? I'd like to try out something like, by default if it's one word search wikipedia, if it's two or more use ddg lite and only if it's a quoted phrase search with google.

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