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That's why we should ditch google search for alternatives. So far I've been using DDG and am quite happy though it needs improvements in search results they may

That's why we should ditch google search for alternatives. So far I've been using DDG and am quite happy though it needs improvements in search results they may be the ones to listen to our needs unlike google who is too big to care.

not2b 6y ago
DDG just gives you Bing's results, while avoiding giving Microsoft information on you. This will necessarily produce worse results, but you might decide that this is worth the tradeoff.
- onemoresoop 6y ago
  DDG also gives google results. If it grows in adoption it might get better than the two is what I think. If not, some other search engine is welcome, something better than google and bing
  - freediver 6y ago
    Source? Take any query and it will mostly be carbon copy of Bing results. Haven't seen any Google results on DDG yet. An engine that did both would certainly be desirable.
    - worble 6y ago
      https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so... DDG has a number of sources, including it's own bot, although it specifically says Google is not one of them, contrary to the GP.
      - onemoresoop 6y ago
        I was under the impression that google results are also used. I guess I was wrong about it. Does anyone know why google results are not aggregated as well? Technical or legal reason?
        freediver 6y ago
        Likely to be monetary reasons. DDG is basically (not entirely accurate but close enough) in the business of reselling Bing Search API and monetizing it through Bing ad network revenue (+some affiliate revenue through Amazon and Ebay). If you also added Google results, your input costs essentially double. Also if so much of your marketing is based on bashing Google, it would be harder to justify such move from a branding perspective.
        onemoresoop 6y ago
        Forgive my ignorance, I really didn't know all of that. I only my criticism of google for the reasons I stated, they have grown so much that they don't care about their users and their search quality has been deteriorating quite rapidly. In part it'snot their fault as an army of marketers found their way to play the game to push their products up in results but, it's not only that. Google has been acting more and more like a corporate monopoly, they're not what they were when they started for sure
heavyset_go 6y ago
Searx[1] is easy to self-host and there a bunch of public instances. It's an open source web app that aggregates search results from dozens of provider back ends like DDG, Bing, Google, Wikipedia, etc. [1] https://github.com/asciimoo/searx https://github.com/asciimoo/searx

not2b 6y ago

DDG just gives you Bing's results, while avoiding giving Microsoft information on you. This will necessarily produce worse results, but you might decide that this is worth the tradeoff.

onemoresoop 6y ago
DDG also gives google results. If it grows in adoption it might get better than the two is what I think. If not, some other search engine is welcome, something better than google and bing
- freediver 6y ago
  Source? Take any query and it will mostly be carbon copy of Bing results. Haven't seen any Google results on DDG yet. An engine that did both would certainly be desirable.
  - worble 6y ago
    https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so... DDG has a number of sources, including it's own bot, although it specifically says Google is not one of them, contrary to the GP.
    - onemoresoop 6y ago
      I was under the impression that google results are also used. I guess I was wrong about it. Does anyone know why google results are not aggregated as well? Technical or legal reason?
      - freediver 6y ago
        Likely to be monetary reasons. DDG is basically (not entirely accurate but close enough) in the business of reselling Bing Search API and monetizing it through Bing ad network revenue (+some affiliate revenue through Amazon and Ebay). If you also added Google results, your input costs essentially double. Also if so much of your marketing is based on bashing Google, it would be harder to justify such move from a branding perspective.
        onemoresoop 6y ago
        Forgive my ignorance, I really didn't know all of that. I only my criticism of google for the reasons I stated, they have grown so much that they don't care about their users and their search quality has been deteriorating quite rapidly. In part it'snot their fault as an army of marketers found their way to play the game to push their products up in results but, it's not only that. Google has been acting more and more like a corporate monopoly, they're not what they were when they started for sure

heavyset_go 6y ago

Searx[1] is easy to self-host and there a bunch of public instances. It's an open source web app that aggregates search results from dozens of provider back ends like DDG, Bing, Google, Wikipedia, etc. [1] https://github.com/asciimoo/searx https://github.com/asciimoo/searx