Is there anyway to add this as a favored search engine in the browser?
I currently use google as it's set as the default search when I type in the address bar but would love to switch and move google/ddg to a added character like "<search terms> @g"
All the major browsers support adding custom search engines. You just need to specify the URL template to do the search. The common format is to put "%s" as the search term. You can use it for any site, not just things that are considered search engines.
Firefox is a bit different, since you do it by adding a bookmark, and giving that bookmark a keyword. The other browsers I checked have an option under the search engine settings.
After defining the custom search engine, you just type "<keyword> <search term>" in the URL bar.
I currently use google as it's set as the default search when I type in the address bar but would love to switch and move google/ddg to a added character like "<search terms> @g"