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Just gonna toss StartPage (https://www.startpage.com/ https://www.startpage.com/) out there as an alternative to Google. DDG uses bing under the hood. StartPag
by prophesi 7y ago
Just gonna toss StartPage (https://www.startpage.com/ https://www.startpage.com/) out there as an alternative to Google.
DDG uses bing under the hood. StartPage proxies requests to Google. I've just personally found the latter to give better consistent results, particularly with my searches for technical/programming issues.
- eindiran 7y agoDuckDuckGo doesn't "use bing under the hood" exactly: it has a large number of sources, including some other search engines like Bing, Yahoo and Yandex but also its own crawler ("DuckDuckGoBot")[0]. [0] https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources
- prophesi 7y agoThank you for the correction; is this a recent development? I'll definitely give DDG another try, especially in light of rapnie's comment about StartPage's recent acquisition by a company with a very likely conflict of interest.
- rapnie 7y agoYou might reconsider your use of StartPage. It was taken over by an Ad company recently. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21371577 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21371577