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There are prolly only 3 global English language indexes. Google, Bing, Yandex. DDG uses vague language to make themselves look like they are actual search engin
by kinkrtyavimoodh 7y ago
There are prolly only 3 global English language indexes. Google, Bing, Yandex. DDG uses vague language to make themselves look like they are actual search engines, which would make you think they actually index the web.
The truth is they rely largely on Bing and Google results and mostly just rerank them. That's why it's hard to take their PR seriously.
- FabHK 7y agoDDG's main selling point is that they respect your privacy. I could not care less where they get their results from. As such, I continue to take their "PR" seriously.
- kinkrtyavimoodh 7y agoAll I'm saying is it's pointless to consider them a realistic competitor of Google, Bing etc. when they basically punt over the most crucial infra aspect of being a search engine and when their service is more akin to querying the Bing API from a headless browser and mildly rearranging the results. It's also clear that they try to obfuscate this fact by claiming "more than 500 signals / sources", which means they feel that being more upfront about the truth would work against them.