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The last time that I checked, DDG was buying search results from Bing (as does Ecosia). Is Bing that terrible? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo https:

by chasil 5y ago

The last time that I checked, DDG was buying search results from Bing (as does Ecosia). Is Bing that terrible? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo "It uses various APIs of other websites to show quick results to queries and for traditional links it uses the help of its partners (mainly Bing) and its own crawler."

Minor49er 5y ago
Bing isn't too bad. I've actually half-migrated to using it since the results are often relevant and usually even better than Google. From my experience, Google is better at searching for programming-related topics, but anything specific and it starts to fall apart. I can make an exact phrase query on Google and it will drop words out of the phrase for no reason. Bing doesn't do this.
autoexec 5y ago
Bing has been caught stealing results from Google too. https://www.wired.com/2011/02/bing-copies-google/ https://www.wired.com/2011/02/bing-copies-google/ It seems like every search engine that isn't google, is still just google but with extra stuff mixed in. It'd be nice to see a competitor that didn't rely on anyone else's search results and only developed and gathered results from their own index.
- ColinHayhurst 5y ago
  Apologies for self-promotion. Mojeek Independent and no-tracking https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/03/to-track-or-not-to-track.html https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/03/to-track-or-not-to-track.htm... Gigablast is another and one of very few https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/05/no-tracking-search-how-does-it-work.html https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/05/no-tracking-search-how-does-...
- FridayoLeary 5y ago
  Unfortunately, from what i've learnt from HN that this is not really possible. Most websites ban crawlers\bots with the exception of those run by google and maybe bing. It seems that this market is hermetically sealed.

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The last time that I checked, DDG was buying search results from Bing (as does Ecosia). Is Bing that terrible? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo https:

by chasil 5y ago

Minor49er 5y ago
Bing isn't too bad. I've actually half-migrated to using it since the results are often relevant and usually even better than Google. From my experience, Google is better at searching for programming-related topics, but anything specific and it starts to fall apart. I can make an exact phrase query on Google and it will drop words out of the phrase for no reason. Bing doesn't do this.
autoexec 5y ago
Bing has been caught stealing results from Google too. https://www.wired.com/2011/02/bing-copies-google/ https://www.wired.com/2011/02/bing-copies-google/ It seems like every search engine that isn't google, is still just google but with extra stuff mixed in. It'd be nice to see a competitor that didn't rely on anyone else's search results and only developed and gathered results from their own index.
- ColinHayhurst 5y ago
  Apologies for self-promotion. Mojeek Independent and no-tracking https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/03/to-track-or-not-to-track.html https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/03/to-track-or-not-to-track.htm... Gigablast is another and one of very few https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/05/no-tracking-search-how-does-it-work.html https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/05/no-tracking-search-how-does-...
- FridayoLeary 5y ago
  Unfortunately, from what i've learnt from HN that this is not really possible. Most websites ban crawlers\bots with the exception of those run by google and maybe bing. It seems that this market is hermetically sealed.