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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

ITT: people who don't know that DuckDuckGo is just Bing with a bird on it

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think that’s an oversimplification. I get different results.

Wiki claims (with five sources I didn’t check):

DuckDuckGo's results are a compilation of "over 400" sources according to itself, including Bing, Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Yandex, and its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot); but none from Google.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Last time I did a comparison, I got identical results from DDG and Bing run in sandboxed browsers.

[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

I feel that, cause most news links are of msn. But atleast it wont send data to ms for just searching.

[–] keyez@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago

And without a key part like having to use bing