Empty search query behaivor

[jnzd]

When "searching" for just a bang with no actual search query (e.g. "!yt", "!hltv") duckduckgo seems to truncate the search url and in turn redirects to youtube.com or hltv.org respectively. My guess is that urls get truncated to their hostname, but I have not been able to fully verify that. unduck on the other hand navigates to https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=#searching and https://www.hltv.org/search?query= respectively. Some (maybe even most) search engines seem to behave like duckduckgo "natively" and redirect an empty search query to the homepage. google is one such example.

I think a redirect mechanic like duckduckgo has, would generally be more useful than the ability to search for an empty string which in 99% of cases will give no useful results.

[krz42]

Yes. It is very annoying. I hope it will be fixed soon.