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DDG is just a proxy for Bing. Yes, let's degoogle our lives, but why not start using a free/libre metasearch engine (like Searx[0]), while you're at it? [0]: h
by hjek 7y ago
DDG is just a proxy for Bing. Yes, let's degoogle our lives, but why not start using a free/libre metasearch engine (like Searx[0]), while you're at it?
[0]: https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/ https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/
- kitotik 7y agoCitation needed. They use Bing Ads, but I’m not sure if their actual search results are just proxied Bing results.
- akvadrako 7y agoThey are not exclusively Bing, but mostly. I think Wikipedia has the details.
- epicide 7y agoThey seem to even let you turn ads off in the settings.
- hjek 7y agoI think nowadays they mix in some results from other search engines, but it started out as just Bing results. Doesn't change the point about it being just a proprietary interface to other proprietary search engines. > We do use results from Bing. Our zero-click info and some other stuff we do, however, uses results from all over.[0] [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20180910181021/https://duck.co/forum/comment/27893 https://web.archive.org/web/20180910181021/https://duck.co/f...