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webfork wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2019 10:00 am I'm pleased to report that you can now use our search from within duckduckgo.com via the !pfw keyword. In other words, it's a shortcut to quickly access our site's search entry from DuckDuckGo. So if you have their service as your default search engine, all you need to do is type:

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!pfw <search term>

... to see results from our site.

Interestingly, we're the only site with that functionality under the 'freeware' keyword:



Note that portableapps.com has one as well: !papps.

Ding-A-Ling wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2019 6:09 am Referring to PortableFreeware on DuckDuckGo: !pfw

thepiney wrote: ↑Could it be related to this post/thread?

I'm not sure, but I doubt it: the "!pfw" search in DuckDuckGo just directs to the search of TPFC catalogue and not a search of the Forum.

thepiney wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2019 5:46 pm Could it be related to this post/thread?

Andrew Lee wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2019 4:43 pm I suspect the database server went rogue. It totally stopped accepting connections 2 day ago.

After restarting the db server, things seem to be back to normal now.