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>That's in response to the tankman problem btw. They now redirect people who have used Bing so far to DuckDuckGo. If Bing's handling of "tank man" was truly th
by jasode 5y ago
>That's in response to the tankman problem btw. They now redirect people who have used Bing so far to DuckDuckGo.
If Bing's handling of "tank man" was truly the reason, why would DDG be an alternative since they also had "no results here". See screenshot:
https://imgur.com/GbyQCiy https://imgur.com/GbyQCiy
I'm not familiar with the internals of how DDG works. People say that DDG sources its search results from Bing but others say DDG actually pulls from additional sources. If that's true, why wasn't DDG able to retrieve images from those other sources for "tank man"?
- SAI_Peregrinus 5y agoDDG pulls search results in general from a number of sources. It pulls image search results solely from Bing. That's clearly problematic, but they could add more backend providers of image results.
- mynegation 5y agoIt is probably the reason. It was Bing’s decision to filter the searches, DDG was just the effect of this. The author of notepad++ has a history of activism against CCP.
- unixhero 5y agoGood. We have got to band together against authoritarianism.
- koheripbal 5y agoHe's against a lot of things - not just authoritarianism. Are you confident you'll remain on the "good side" of his politics forever?
- unixhero 5y agoI don't need to. He can mean whatever he wants. I am a user of a technology he has created. I don't care about the wild ride of politisation of everything in the States and "identity poltics"... See how far that has gotten you.
- Hasnep 5y agoWhy would they need to? They could just change their opinion.