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For what it’s worth: I have been using Ecosia as my preferred search engine. Basically it just forwards requests to Bing in exchange for ad revenue which is use

by xyst 4y ago

For what it’s worth: I have been using Ecosia as my preferred search engine. Basically it just forwards requests to Bing in exchange for ad revenue which is used to plant trees. Have been able to use the advanced keywords and operators to filter results with Ecosia https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/advanced-search-keywords-ea595928-5d63-4a0b-9c6b-0b769865e78a https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/advanced-search-ke... https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/advanced-search-options-b92e25f1-0085-4271-bdf9-14aaea720930 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/advanced-search-op... Sometimes the search results can be irrelevant especially for programming queries. But in those cases I just fallback to G

creshal 4y ago
If the DDG changes are caused by Bing pricing changes, won't that also affect Ecosia sooner or later?
- mardifoufs 4y ago
  It seems like it sometimes works on ecosia, but not for everyone. Ddg also seems to have a similar issue, where it sometimes works depending on location (?). I guess even if it is not related to api pricing, it still shows that search engines that depend on reselling or vendoring an API aren't much of an alternative to the big guys (though ecosia is awesome, and it doesn't pretend to compete on the search offering itself ). And hopefully I'm totally wrong about the whole situation being related to pricing!