Key points:
That’s all you need to know – read the rest of this post only if you’d like to know more.
A bang command searches a specific site. Hover on or select/check the link to know the site.
An asterisk attached to an exclamation point works as a faux bang command (!*) for sites not invoked by a named bang command, unlike Google (!g), for instance.
Some examples:
Ellipsis characters used in a search term may signify omitted text and may be replaced by that text in the search, as in the last example in the list above. And also as in that example, an asterisk or bang command that could be expected in a search term may be omitted in the actual search.
2020-04-29*
*asterisks may link to anything – for more on links, see note*
hover on or select/check links for destinations / the asterisk that ends the line above links to this post
the asterisk on the date above links to the about post at bit.ly/dateposted − a post about posted items
for asterisks that link to nothing, refer to footnotes
changes to a note on notes and links / a nominally private post of no interest to any but the curious
use anything from this post anywhere you can embed links – like in an email
from an email signature block:
Be well …*
George
2026-mm-ddThh−08*
where the last asterisk above links to this post
TK / to come* (!?)
asterisks may link to anything (!*) – select/check links – and if to nothing, see footnotes*
parenthetical DDG bang commands (!?) link to results of searches for phrases they follow
asterisks and bang commands within such phrases may or may not be searched for
ellipsis characters (!?) may stand for text included in the actual searched-for phrase*
^carets that link to bookmarked dates in the link log mark copy-pastes from those weeks*
That’s all you need to know – read the rest of this post only if you’d like to know more.
A bang command searches a specific site. Hover on or select/check the link to know the site.
An asterisk attached to an exclamation point works as a faux bang command (!*) for sites not invoked by a named bang command, unlike Google (!g), for instance.
Some examples:
Unitarians care less about belief, more about how to live* / archived 2020-05-09, now this*
we need to know more than stories can tell, yet …* (!?) / all we know is stories* (!?)
^whatever happens, as it happens* … silently ask: Who am I?* (!?)
^for all, the gateway to reality, by whatever road one arrives at it, is the sense of “I am”*
the present presents perception*… of sensation, emotion, and thought* (!?) / five skandhas* (!?)
power (!*) (!*) / two searches – each using a faux bang command – with results from each site
logical fallacies prevalent in UU spaces: ad hominem* (!o) attacks, slippery slope … / Cycleback (!g)*
Ellipsis characters used in a search term may signify omitted text and may be replaced by that text in the search, as in the last example in the list above. And also as in that example, an asterisk or bang command that could be expected in a search term may be omitted in the actual search.
2020-04-29*
*asterisks may link to anything – for more on links, see note*
hover on or select/check links for destinations / the asterisk that ends the line above links to this post
the asterisk on the date above links to the about post at bit.ly/dateposted − a post about posted items
for asterisks that link to nothing, refer to footnotes
changes to a note on notes and links / a nominally private post of no interest to any but the curious
use anything from this post anywhere you can embed links – like in an email
from an email signature block:
Be well …*
George
2026-mm-ddThh−08*
*asterisks may link to anything – for more on links, see note*
where the last asterisk above links to this post
TK / to come* (!?)