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I find your choice of link interesting.

Presumably you didn't write it by hand as you'd use duckgo.com then I suspect. So, why not provide the terminal page URL instead of this forwarding page?

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=.--.%20..%20-.%20---%20....

It's particularly curious because the page you give is an automated redirect and you'd have to stop the page loading to copy the link.

Just curious.


I wanted to show off duckduckgo's bang syntax.

I set it as my default search engine in Chrome, and it first I kept going to Google manually for specific searches where duckduckgo isn't good enough, yet. But after I learned that "!g <search>" would do that for me with less hassle, I grew much happier with duckduckgo.

By the way, a prefix of !hn defers to searchyc.com. There's a list at http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html


I was aware of the bang syntax - just if you manually wrote out the URL I expected you to use "dukgo.com/?q=!wa ..-.." or whatever rather than a long handed version.

Personally I use "wa" as a search keyword and then enter "wa ..-.." into my address bar.


I used copy-and-paste, and had to be quite nimble, to be faster than the re-direct.


Hit escape/stop and take your time.




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