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Created February 13, 2012 14:19
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Redirects google searches starting with bang to duckduckgo.com. This way you can keep google (or whatever) as your default search engine so that when you 'cat' in the address bar, google is searched. But, when you type '!yt cat', youtube is searched, bec
// ==UserScript==
// @name Google + DuckDuckGo
// @namespace http://jeffpalm.com/googleduckduckgo/
// @description Redirects google searches starting with bang to duckduckgo.com
// @include https://www.google.com/*
// @include http://www.google.com/*
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
function cgiParams(url) {
var path = url.replace(/.*\?/,'');
var pairs = path.split(/&/);
var res = {};
for (var i=0; i<pairs.length; i++) {
var p = pairs[i].split(/=/);
var k,v;
if (p.length == 2) {
k = p[0];
v = p[1];
} else {
k = p[0];
v = "";
}
res[k] = v;
}
return res;
}
function main() {
var url = String(document.location);
var params = cgiParams(url);
var q = params['q'];
if (!!q) {
if (q.match(/^!/)) {
document.location = 'https://duckduckgo.com/?q=' + q;
}
}
}
main();
})();
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