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   Bill Powell to Indira   
   Re: Is there a Windows batch way to make   
   14 Mar 24 00:37:22   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.software.firefox   
   From: bill@anarchists.org   
      
   On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 05:00:31 +0530, Indira wrote:   
      
   > Then the script would only ask "what do you want to search for", and it   
   > would then create the URLs for each search & run them all at the same time.   
   >   
   > For duckduckgo for example, it would construct a url like this.   
   > https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=game+of+thrones+pdf+free+download&ia=web   
      
   That's something of intelligence that a dumb bookmark can't do.   
   But what do those two "ffab" and "ia=web" keywords indicate?   
   Maybe they speed up the ddg search process?   
      
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