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Wow. A couple of side-by-side searches, and I've switched to Bing to try it out for the next few days. I've got really tired of Google's cruft, and tried DuckD

by seldo 14y ago

Wow. A couple of side-by-side searches, and I've switched to Bing to try it out for the next few days. I've got really tired of Google's cruft, and tried DuckDuckGo several times, but the results were just never as good (and I missed integrated image and news searches, both of which I use heavily). Bing's results seem much closer to what I expect.

tar 14y ago
Maybe its just me but when I last tried DDG I found it to be awfully slow compared to Google and Bing.
- thenonsequitur 14y ago
  I can second this data point. I love DDG, and tried it out as my default search engine for about a month, but just got tired of how slow it was compared to Google and switched back to Google as my default (on DDG I found myself adding "!google" about 30% of the time anyway). If DDG was faster, I'd probably still be using it.
ma2rten 14y ago
That would be really bad, because DDG is a search engine on top of the Bing API.
- seldo 14y ago
  Well, boy do I feel dumb.
  - ch0wn 14y ago
    It's not just Bing results. They use their results instead of running their own content crawlers, but they use some own algorithms for ranking, spam filtering and so on. Also, Bing is not their only source, if I'm not mistaken.
    - mda 14y ago
      I wonder what percentage of ddg results come from bing, is this information public?
      - Johnyma22 14y ago
        I wonder how DDG are going to respond to the proposed changes to the Bing API pricing
nextparadigms 14y ago
Try Blekko.com