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> Bing is their initial and primary source of data for web links. Not the only one either, but the primary one. They maintain their own index from it. What is
by JeremyNT 3y ago
> Bing is their initial and primary source of data for web links. Not the only one either, but the primary one. They maintain their own index from it.
What is their other data source? And how did it come to suffer from the same problem?
I keep seeing insinuations that DDG has some other secret source than Bing, but it's always hand waved and never explicitly named. Incidents like this seem to strongly imply that only Bing really matters at the end of the day.
- photonerd 3y ago> I keep seeing insinuations […] It’s not an insinuation, it’s a straight fact direct from the founder. That you don’t understand data replication problems—or know the inner workings of a private company’s codebase & data funnel—doesn’t make it some conspiracy. It just means you’re uninformed.
- JeremyNT 3y ago> It just means you’re uninformed. I'm glad to be corrected. What is their other data source?
- autoexec 3y agoYeah DDG has always been weirdly evasive about how their search engine works and where results are coming from. If it makes you feel any better, bing has been caught copying results from Google (https://www.wired.com/2011/02/bing-copies-google/ https://www.wired.com/2011/02/bing-copies-google/) so there's a chance you'll get bing results plus results from whatever other search engine bing copies. Personally, I don't even mind if using DDG is the same thing as searching bing so long as it actually works, but they still can't get a simple search like "office -microsoft" or "headphones -best" right. I even thought they acknowledged the problem and were looking into it at one point.