DuckDuckGo also is unable to provide search results, which seems to confirm they use Bing as a base for their searches.
Yes, they use bing https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources...
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#72Non-Google recommendations in the interim?
searx.org
public instances https://searx.space
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#73It was me. I asked it which pigeon has orange beak and it crashed it.
Let me help you ;) https://unsplash.com/photos/blue-and-white-bird-with-orange-...
That's him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_wood_pigeon
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#74DDG relying on bing for doing searches is... strange to me. I feel like I've seen its own web crawler in my access logs
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#75DuckDuckNoGo
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#76While we are on the subject of search engines, which search engines still show you like blogs, forum posts and stuff like that? Most of the blogs for obscure projects or problems are no longer even discoverable.
You're supposed to get your information from big platforms exclusively, otherwise how would you be able to see all the nice ads and "curated activism"?
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#77https://www.bing.com/ is down too at the moment. Curiously I cannot find a "health" or a "status" page for either.
DDG runs on bing, so that squares. Apparently, MS uses Bing for their portal, because I can't search inside Azure portal neither.
like a very large number of things we are pitched as search engines: https://www.searchenginemap.com/
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#78Yes, ddg is just a bing frontend which anonymizes results before sending them to MS.
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#79While we are on the subject of search engines, which search engines still show you like blogs, forum posts and stuff like that? Most of the blogs for obscure projects or problems are no longer even discoverable.
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#80While we are on the subject of search engines, which search engines still show you like blogs, forum posts and stuff like that? Most of the blogs for obscure projects or problems are no longer even discoverable.
Kagi. They actually have a filter setting to only show forum results. They have one for the "smallweb" as well. Also a "smallweb" landing page designed to help you discover niche creators like you mentioned. Here: https://kagi.com/smallweb/