@lunarised @icedquinn @jeru @karolat @newt

> also wraps word semantics

I think basically everyone does that, but DDG doesn't seem to if you use quotes. Google started treating quotes as advisory ~10 years ago.

> And i wonder if the tech they are using implicitly uses google?...

People type "!g" more often than they type "!b", probably. Google likely pays them for this; you saw that leak of how much they're paying Apple to remain the default search engine in Safari and Mobile Safari?