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> Unsurprisingly, I find DDG's search results good enough. I rarely go to Google, and only when DDG fails me. It might be helpful to point out that DDG (and ot
by akie 6y ago
> Unsurprisingly, I find DDG's search results good enough. I rarely go to Google, and only when DDG fails me.
It might be helpful to point out that DDG (and other 'alternative' search engines such as Ecosia) get their search results from Bing.
- yters 6y agoWhy not just use Bing? Also, how is this not a problem? If DDG ever becomes popular enough to be a threat, Bing just stops providing them search results.
- cfors 6y agoBecause Bing does what Google does, which is uses your search history to show you targeted ads. DuckDuckGo only shows keyword based ads, which aren't as effective but do not require building a persona of personal information to target. It's totally a problem and disingenuous of the article to talk about the "Business Model" of DDG and not mention this.
- andreareina 6y agoDDG has its own index now, though it still augments that with other sources. https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/
- sct202 6y agoDoes the DDG bot actually do a lot of crawling? I've never seen anyone talk about it except that it exists, while for Bingbot, Googlebot and random chinese bots in the webdev forums I go to people complain all the time about excessive crawling.
- Kiro 6y agoTheir own index is not used for any organic search results, only Instant Answers and other widget stuff. Money quote from your page: > We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from multiple partners, though most commonly from Bing (and none from Google).
- qchris 6y agoI agree that quote is there (and have read the surrounding context), but it doesn't seem to me that it actually says that DuckDuckBot results aren't used in any non-Instant Answer search result, which I think is a distinction. They're very clearly synthesizing results from multiple sources, including many from Bing, but neither that page nor the DuckDuckBot-specific page seem to directly exclude the use of their internally-crawled results in the non-Instant Answers search results. Did I perhaps miss something?
- Kiro 6y agoYou're right but at the same time they say that they source their "traditional links in the search results" from "multiple partners", which to me seems to imply that it's from partners only and not their own crawler. Try searching for something random like "woxioai" on DDG and you will see that the search results are identical to Bing (albeit a slightly different order but I presume they do some internal sorting at least), while the search results are completely different on Google.