But: what happens when looking for some devuan issue at dev1galaxy?

Today I have made some investigation to a long outstanding problem:

A) searching the dev1galaxy forum gives an URL like:

    dev1galaxy.org/search.php?action=search … earch+term

Without search restriction (this is the default!) there are many results!

TL;DR: A couple of times I have refined the search: Oh, there are still a lot of other interesting things. But I didn't find what I'm looking for.

B) using duckduckgo according to soren:

Cool. As of this writing duckduckgo provides an javascript free search interface! Append " site:dev1galaxy.org" or prepend "!dev1galaxy " to your search string (note the space before or after string).

    duckduckgo.com/html?q=search+term+site:dev1galaxy.org

or with slightly different results:

    duckduckgo.com/html?q=!dev1galaxy+search+term

C) Using startpage URL:

    www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?q=mouse+fo … galaxy.org

Again: startpage is still my favorite engine for daily usage but not for devuan. The results are very bad, only few to nothing. And they don't look better on a terminal :-(

Summary: As of this writing I'm now starting to search the dev1galaxy with duckduckgo.com/html without javascript.

-- guuml

BTW: some times I like to view some sites with a www-browser like w3m IMHO, others may prefer lynx. Searching from the commandline for "search term" may look like:

www-browser "https://search.engine/options?query=search term"

+1 point for DDG: w3m displays the results in a fancy way.

Update:

Some time ago there was a thread … ah very long time ago … I remember only vaguely … one of the first posts I have read …

Sometimes I have to read the information twice

Update 2: (last of today:)

A search script may look like

#!/bin/sh -xv
# find-dev1galaxy - search in the officially official devuan forum

SEARCH_TERM=`echo "$* site:dev1galaxy.org" | tr ' ' '+'`
exec www-browser "https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=$SEARCH_TERM"

Or if you prefer functions in bashism:

find_dev1galaxy() {
 w3m "https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=${*// /+}+site:dev1galaxy.org"
}

Ok, processing advanced search options isn't that good

Have a nice week --guuml

For example this one line just searches dev1galaxy only, for the keyword 'boot'.

boot site:dev1galaxy.org

Or use the ducks bang feature.
!dev1galaxy boot