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DuckDuckGO for the bangs, with a custom !bang made for my favorite SearXNG instance; on which most of my 'googling' actually happens.
I just define my own bangs. Both Firefox and Google let you set up custom search engines easily. For example I just type
d bag of holding
into my URL bar and it searched my favourite D&D reference site. Faster, private and I can select whatever search engine I want for regular search.That's good to know! And I'm sure it's beneficial information for those that were unaware of that. However, (unless I'm wrong) the method you described requires you to be deliberate and precise in the placement of your own bang; i.e.
bag of d holding
orbag of holding d
wouldn't work. As I often just start typing whatever I want to search/look for and only notice midway/afterwards that I hadn't specified where I would like to search, the built-in 'bangs' in Firefox/Chrome just wouldn't cut it unless I would try to rewire my behavior.