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How many real alternatives exist, though? DuckDuckGo is based on Bing, afaik. So there are Google and Bing - any others?

• commoner 7y ago
  There are also Baidu and Yandex, which dominate China and Russia, respectively. https://www.baidu.com https://www.baidu.com https://yandex.com https://yandex.com Qwant is a France-based search engine that has a similar privacy focus to DuckDuckGo. https://www.qwant.com https://www.qwant.com Million Short tries to find sites that other search engines miss. https://millionshort.com https://millionshort.com Wikipedia has a more comprehensive list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines
  • adventskalender 7y ago
    Thanks! Wikipedia still mentions Yahoo! - I thought they gave up and switched to Bing years ago?
  • iudqnolq 7y ago
    It isn't clear to what extent Qwant actually makes their own results. In 2013 they said they were temporarily using Bing results they purchased as "training data" [wikipedia]. They haven't given any updates on that I could find (in English, at least), but they recently proudly announced they have 20B pages in their index in an article on their partnerships with Microsoft [betterweb]. Google's index is 1500 times larger, so I'm not sure how competitive their own index is [goog]. And, if they no longer needed to rely on Bing results, wouldn't they announce that? [wiki]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant [betterweb]: https://betterweb.qwant.com/how-microsoft-tools-strengthen-qwant/ https://betterweb.qwant.com/how-microsoft-tools-strengthen-q... [goog]: https://venturebeat.com/2013/03/01/how-google-searches-30-trillion-web-pages-100-billion-times-a-month/ https://venturebeat.com/2013/03/01/how-google-searches-30-tr...