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Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

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Post by mkl »

okraszo wrote: post #45
jhoechtl wrote: post #44

I liked DDG a lot .. but when I discovered that it is effectively an UI over Bing (Yahoo?), I am a lot less impressed. Is there any search engine which is NOT backed by an extremely heavyweight player?

Where did you find information it is really a "proxy" to Bing? I couldn't find such information. BTW, there is also similar private search that proxies queries to google - https://www.startpage.com/

From two days ago: Startpage is now owned by an advertising company https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/di5rn3/startpage_i... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21371577

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

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Post by gandalfian »

jhoechtl wrote: post #44

I liked DDG a lot .. but when I discovered that it is effectively an UI over Bing (Yahoo?), I am a lot less impressed. Is there any search engine which is NOT backed by an extremely heavyweight player?

A service that combined yandex and google would probably cancel out most of the worlds censorship. I'm not sure where you would be allowed to run such a service from though...

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

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Post by rkangel »

jhoechtl wrote: post #44

I liked DDG a lot .. but when I discovered that it is effectively an UI over Bing (Yahoo?), I am a lot less impressed. Is there any search engine which is NOT backed by an extremely heavyweight player?

As siblings have covered - it is a proxy for some search results.

That's ok though - a privacy respecting proxy to a decent search engine is a useful thing. You get all the search results and they don't get to track you.

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

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Post by sveme »

mda wrote: post #54
hnarn wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your claim desperately needs a citation.

Logic. Creating and maintaining a half decent search engine requires a billion dollar worth of infrastructure and talent. They have neither.

That's circular. They don't have it because they could not?

Alas, it's using bing as one source, it's more than just a proxy to bing. And they seem to have their own crawler as well.

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

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Post by jhoechtl »

gandalfian wrote: post #62
jhoechtl wrote: post #44

I liked DDG a lot .. but when I discovered that it is effectively an UI over Bing (Yahoo?), I am a lot less impressed. Is there any search engine which is NOT backed by an extremely heavyweight player?

A service that combined yandex and google would probably cancel out most of the worlds censorship. I'm not sure where you would be allowed to run such a service from though...

In Russia DDG uses Yandex

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

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Post by BLanen »

The search results are ddg pages suggesting search terms based on the input?

Why can't I just search normally and the list is a list of the actual results of my query.

Now you navigate to the ddg search results page and have to then browse as usual. Almost useless. You'd think this would be made to skip that step.

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

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Post by microcolonel »

jhoechtl wrote: post #44

I liked DDG a lot .. but when I discovered that it is effectively an UI over Bing (Yahoo?), I am a lot less impressed. Is there any search engine which is NOT backed by an extremely heavyweight player?

They also use Yandex, I don't see the problem exactly.

> Is there any search engine which is NOT backed by an extremely heavyweight player?

Global search of most web pages worth finding is a heavyweight task.

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