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That is really good to hear! I also added it as default search engine in safari and brave since I switched. Thought I have to go full in in order to give it a chance. Where exactly do you add the „!g“?
Anywhere in the search string works, and then it redirects you to google.
Oh, and the feature is called “bangs”. I knew there were a good handful of them but apparently there are a ton! Over 13,000?
https://duckduckgo.com/bangs
The "!g" is part of something called "bangs" on DuckDuckGo. Bangs are prefixes to redirect your query to another search engine. For example "!g How to pet a cat" will redirect you to Google, searching for "How to pet a cat"
Other useful bangs are "!m" for maps, "!gi" for Google images, "!so" for stack overflow.
You can find more about it at the bangs page: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs