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Most of DuckDuckGo's "10-pack" of traditional search results come from Bing: https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/?redir=1#:~:text=we%20also%20of%20cours

Most of DuckDuckGo's "10-pack" of traditional search results come from Bing: https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/?redir=1#:~:text=we%20also%20of%20course%20have%20more%20traditional%20links%20in%20the%20search%20results%2C%20which%20we%20also%20source%20from%20multiple%20partners%2C%20though%20most%20commonly%20from%20bing https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/?redir=1#:~:text...

dylan604 5y ago
Whenever DDG is mentioned, these "but it uses Bing" comments always pop up. Sure maybe somebody is in the lucky 10k with TIL moment, however these "but it uses Bing" comments leave out the fact that Bing doesn't know you made the search. That's kind of the point in DDG is to be able to search the web anonymously. I don't know the intent of the "but it uses Bing" posts to just be "in case you didn't know" or "it's lame because it just uses Bing" or something in between. It just seems to me these comments are missing the forest through the tree.
- SllX 5y ago
  It speaks more to the quality of the results you can expect receiving non-personalized Bing results. From my experience, it isn’t very good, and I’ve had DuckDuckGo as my default search engine for years, at first to give DuckDuckGo the old college try, but now primarily to be able to replicate a feature I had in Firefox in Safari and iOS Spotlight (being able to redirect a search to any search engine with a keyword).
  - Server6 5y ago
    DDG is fine for most things. It's made a lot inroads, not because its gotten better, but because Google has gotten worse.
    - SllX 5y ago
      Nah, most of my searches still start at DuckDuckGo since I haven’t fully gotten back in the habit of putting the search redirection keyword back in yet. If it’s fine for you for most things, great, but based off very recent and nearly daily data on my end, that is not my experience at all. I do agree about Google getting worse though. There isn’t a search engine today that can even hold a candle to Google from over 10 years ago including Google itself. Unfortunately, the closest thing is still Google.
      - spronkey 5y ago
        I find DDG is generally good or at least good enough when the data you need is relative popular and relative well distributed around the internet. DDG falls very, very flat when it comes to needing to scour the depths of the internet for something very specific. Case in point is car parts - find an obscure part from a Japanese Honda, for example, and attempt to find it in DDG. I'll wait. :P
- pb7 5y ago
  It’s mentioned because Bing isn’t very good so you shouldn’t expect any different with DDG. Also every time this comment is posted, someone tries to argue that it doesn’t come from Bing despite zero evidence so it’s a TIL for more than you think.
  - dylan604 5y ago
    are people using DDG using it just because it's not Bing and/or G? I thought the whole premise of DDG was providing the ability to search anonymously by "proxying" your search to a different search engine altogther. I was aware of the switch away from G to Bing, and I was okay with that as now G no longer gets any search data from me even if it was made anon by DDG.
    - EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 5y ago
      then use startpage, it takes its results from google
  - EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 5y ago
    DDG is cool with the kids today, Bing is not, all matter of fashion.

dylan604 5y ago

Whenever DDG is mentioned, these "but it uses Bing" comments always pop up. Sure maybe somebody is in the lucky 10k with TIL moment, however these "but it uses Bing" comments leave out the fact that Bing doesn't know you made the search. That's kind of the point in DDG is to be able to search the web anonymously. I don't know the intent of the "but it uses Bing" posts to just be "in case you didn't know" or "it's lame because it just uses Bing" or something in between. It just seems to me these comments are missing the forest through the tree.

SllX 5y ago
It speaks more to the quality of the results you can expect receiving non-personalized Bing results. From my experience, it isn’t very good, and I’ve had DuckDuckGo as my default search engine for years, at first to give DuckDuckGo the old college try, but now primarily to be able to replicate a feature I had in Firefox in Safari and iOS Spotlight (being able to redirect a search to any search engine with a keyword).
- Server6 5y ago
  DDG is fine for most things. It's made a lot inroads, not because its gotten better, but because Google has gotten worse.
  - SllX 5y ago
    Nah, most of my searches still start at DuckDuckGo since I haven’t fully gotten back in the habit of putting the search redirection keyword back in yet. If it’s fine for you for most things, great, but based off very recent and nearly daily data on my end, that is not my experience at all. I do agree about Google getting worse though. There isn’t a search engine today that can even hold a candle to Google from over 10 years ago including Google itself. Unfortunately, the closest thing is still Google.
    - spronkey 5y ago
      I find DDG is generally good or at least good enough when the data you need is relative popular and relative well distributed around the internet. DDG falls very, very flat when it comes to needing to scour the depths of the internet for something very specific. Case in point is car parts - find an obscure part from a Japanese Honda, for example, and attempt to find it in DDG. I'll wait. :P
pb7 5y ago
It’s mentioned because Bing isn’t very good so you shouldn’t expect any different with DDG. Also every time this comment is posted, someone tries to argue that it doesn’t come from Bing despite zero evidence so it’s a TIL for more than you think.
- dylan604 5y ago
  are people using DDG using it just because it's not Bing and/or G? I thought the whole premise of DDG was providing the ability to search anonymously by "proxying" your search to a different search engine altogther. I was aware of the switch away from G to Bing, and I was okay with that as now G no longer gets any search data from me even if it was made anon by DDG.
  - EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 5y ago
    then use startpage, it takes its results from google
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 5y ago
  DDG is cool with the kids today, Bing is not, all matter of fashion.