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ddg is bing. So why would I bother with it?

• fsflover 5y ago
  1. It hides personal information from Bing. 2. DDG has its own search crawler (and it's getting larger, the more people use it). You can also try SearX.
  • mda 5y ago
    Main search is powered by bing, lets not kid ourselves. ddg is not answering complex queries by using its own crawled index.
    • fsflover 5y ago
      Yes, not yet. I hope it will, when it has enough resources.
• mrweasel 5y ago
  It's not "just Bing", but that also doesn't matter if people are happy with the search results. Honestly Bing has gotten pretty good, and nobody really noticed. It comes up every time DDG is mentioned that it's "Just Bing". It could be made using an early beta version of AltaVista and rejected NetBSD patches for all I care. The results are pretty good regardless of how they're produced.