Some tricks to use on DuckDuckGo

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Inspired by a message on our Telegram group we have tried to summarize what are some tricks that you can use on DuckDuckGo. Because, for those who don't know, DuckDuckGo it's excellent Search engine alternative which also allows you to use various quick tools, some of which are very useful. He also recently had the opportunity to use GPT-3.5 Turbo or Claude 3 Haiku completely free of charge and privately.

Some tricks to use on DuckDuckGo

Here are the ones we found, if you know others don't hesitate to contact us! To create this list we were freely inspired, among other things, by this article.

The top 10 to try

• !Bangs, obviously they are first on the list. Hello beautiful more than 13,000 and allow you to search directly on a site. Example writing !g hi you will search for hello directly on Google.
• Cheat sheets, writing the search query Linux cheat sheets you will see a tab dedicated to many Linux commands with a quick explanation. This command can be used for many other programs such as gimp cheat sheet or photoshop cheat sheet.
• Shorten, with the command shorten you can make a link smaller with the provider ls.gd. Just write shorten lealternative.net to get a shortened link.
• Unroll short URLs, if instead you need to unroll a short URL you can use the command expand https://bit.ly/3Bg19uM.
• Mathematical calculations, writing calculator you will find yourself in front of a calculator that you can use. Alternatively, you can put a mathematical problem directly into the query for you to solve. Write for example: 55 + 99 ÷ 5.
• Password generator, if you need generate a password just write password 22 and a 22-character password of medium complexity will be generated. It can also be said password strong 22 for a strong password or weak password 22 for a less complex one.
• A random number, if you don't need passwords but just numbers you can simply tell him random number to have any number or random number between 1 and 5000 to have a random number between those two digits. You could even use it as a dice!
• Generate QR codes, it is also possible to generate QR codes easily. Try writing qr code lealternative.net by gender the QR code to use to end up on our blog!
• Weather forecast, writing city weather you will be able to see the weather directly in Search engine with data taken from WeatherKit Apple.
• Lowercase and Uppercase, that is, the possibility of making all the letters of a sentence lowercase or uppercase. For example, try writing lowercase I WANT THIS SENTENCE IN LOWER CASE.

And 10 more tricks!

• Convert text to ASCII, for all ASCII code lovers you can write any word or sentence in ASCII simply by writing lealternative figlet.
• Colors, if you write the sentence color picker you will see the entire color palette with the ability to select any color. Alternatively you can write color #000 to see the characteristics of a certain color.
• Who is in space? Try writing people in space to see how many people are in the space currently and for how many days.
• Lorem Ipsum, exactly as you understood. If you write the sentence lorem ipsum random text will be generated. You can also use queries 5 sentences of lorem ipsum, 20 words of lorem ipsum or 10 paragraphs of lorem ipsum according to your needs.
• Calendar, just write calendar 12 October 1492 to see that year's calendar and find out what day it was.
• Stopwatch, the good DuckDuckGo also has a real stopwatch! Try writing stopwatch to activate it.
• Currency and measurement converter, it is also possible to convert currencies and measures by entering for example euros to dollars or cm to m.
• Improve your JS, if you have some JavaScript code and want to give it a clean look you can write beautify js. A space will appear where you can enter your code and by clicking on Beautify Code you can improve its indentation.
• HTML Entities, always remaining in scope geek you can see all the HTML entity simply writing html chars.
• Advanced syntax, there are also many advanced syntaxes available for your search queries. You can find them all here but we will point out some of them to you intitle:dogs to find only pages that have the word in the title dogs or cats filetype:pdf to only find files in the .PDF format.

And there's also room for the DuckDuckGo Easter Egg

• Easter Eggs, there is also a nice Easter Egg inside DuckDuckGo: in fact, try writing why should I use this? and read the answer!

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