This extension adds DuckDuckGo bangs to A lot of search engines. Like StartPage, Bing, and Google. It has an optional bang history tracking feature to see which Bangs you use the most. A nice statistic to know.
The BetterBangs extension is available to download for anyone using firefox-based browsers or edge. For chromium based browsers, please manually download the crx file
Install on Microsoft Edge or just download it manually as .crx-file for Chromium
| Search Engine | URL(s) |
|---|---|
| Startpage | https://*.startpage.com/* (recommended) |
https://*.google.com/*, https://*.google.nl/*, https://*.google.co.uk/*, https://*.google.ca/*, https://*.google.com.au/*, https://*.google.de/*, https://*.google.co.in, https://*.google.ca, https://*.google.fr |
|
| Bing | https://*.bing.com/* |
| Yahoo | https://*.yahoo.com/* |
| Ecosia | https://*.ecosia.org/* |
| Brave | https://*.brave.com/* |
| Swisscows | https://*.swisscows.com/* |
| You.com | https://*.you.com/* |
| Qwant | https://*.qwant.com/* |
| Yandex | https://*.yandex.com/*, https://*.yandex.ru/* |
| Mojeek | https://*.mojeek.com/* |
I highly recommend using Startpage, since it has the same results as Google + it's really privacy focused. But if you still decide to use Google, the extension will only work on the Google domains from the table above. So if it doesn't work, the reason can be that the TLD is not supported. It might not always work on Startpage if it is set to search using POST requests.
It works by checking if the query contains an !, if it does it checks the local list of bangs and redirects you to the site you want to go to. There is an opt-in setting to enable automaticvally opening the first result on the search engine you are using if you just add ! without any bang.
The last time the Bangs-list was updated was on 08-09-2025.
Please fork this repository and create a new pull request to contribute to it.
If you notice any errors, or want to update the bangs.json file, please create a new issue on GitHub.
This extension is licensed under the MIT License.