I wanted to show off duckduckgo's bang syntax.

I set it as my default search engine in Chrome, and it first I kept going to Google manually for specific searches where duckduckgo isn't good enough, yet. But after I learned that "!g <search>" would do that for me with less hassle, I grew much happier with duckduckgo.

By the way, a prefix of !hn defers to searchyc.com. There's a list at http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html

I was aware of the bang syntax - just if you manually wrote out the URL I expected you to use "dukgo.com/?q=!wa ..-.." or whatever rather than a long handed version.

Personally I use "wa" as a search keyword and then enter "wa ..-.." into my address bar.

I used copy-and-paste, and had to be quite nimble, to be faster than the re-direct.

Hit escape/stop and take your time.