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Not sure why this is getting downvoted. Even if DDG is built mostly on top of Bing, the discrepancy would be interesting to explain.
by norswap 6y ago
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. Even if DDG is built mostly on top of Bing, the discrepancy would be interesting to explain.
- skinnymuch 6y agoDifferent index algos and filter bubble. People don’t get the same search engine results.
- woko 6y agoIn my opinion, it is due to location. Bing returns 8 results on the first page, and DDG returns 10 results. At the top of the Bing page, I can see that Bing already takes my location into account (and it is precise, it is my city), so there is no box to tick. Once I tick the "location" box on DDG (it is only the country), I get 7 identical results out of 8 on the first page! The order is the same for results 1-4, the 5th result is different, the 6th result is identical, and results 7-8 are identical but their positions are swapped.
- leereeves 6y agoThat's interesting. By location, do you mean the box that says "All Regions"? I get the same results on DDG (different from Bing) whether I set that to "All Regions" or "US (English)".
- woko 6y agoFor me, it is a setting to tick, which mentions the country: https://i.imgur.com/fML3x0l.png https://i.imgur.com/fML3x0l.png (in French) Once it is set to my country (France), then I get almost identical results. I don't know how to deactivate this feature on Bing, so I could not compare Bing and DDG in the case where the "location" setting would be ticked off on both sites.