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Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by niutech »

fguerraz wrote: post #219
michael9423 wrote: post #151

So much about DuckDuckGo's claim that Bing is only a part of their search results.

Where did you read such a claim? There is a difference between "only a part" and "largely sourced from". _Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing. Our focus is synthesizing all these sources to create a superior search experience._ https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources...

From their FAQ (thanks to Web Archive):

> Where do you get your results?

> From over 30 sources, including DuckDuckBot (our own crawler), crowd-sourced sites (in our own index), Yahoo! BOSS, embed.ly, WolframAlpha, EntireWeb, Bing & Blekko. For any given search, there is usually a vertical search engine out there that does a better job at answering it than a general search engine. Our long-term goal is to get you information from that best source, ideally in instant answer form.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by jraph »

exikyut wrote: post #267
jraph wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A Windows update restarted a critical server automatically. A core service is blocked from starting by a Candy Crush ad installed by the update. The Crandy Crush ad is somehow expecting a Copilot key to be pressed on the keyboard to let the system keep going. MS engineers are waiting for an online purchase of a new $400 keyboard with the Copilot key to complete and planning to run to the data center to plug the keybo…

Very very technically, if RDP is enabled and working, this could be fixed by rdesktop-ing to the machine from a Linux box and using xdotool to experiment with typing raw keyboard scancodes through the RDP session in the hope you figure out the encoding of the Copilot key.

Neat answer :-)

I also appreciate that you prevented me from countering using a guard like "if RDP is enabled and working", and that a follow up answer actually provides the missing piece xD.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by niutech »

victor_z wrote: post #324
niutech wrote: post #316

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So basically DDG is the wrapper for Bing Search, not an "independent" search company as they claim.

Probably. But DDG at least offers more privacy, right? Right?

DDG has a history of breaching privacy: https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/24/ddg-microsoft-tracking-blo...

Meanwhile Brave Search or Mojeek provide more privacy, being independent at the same time.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by [deleted] »

ikt wrote: post #46

I duno how this isn't getting more views tbh Ecosia and Duckduckgo and Bing are down, there's at least 5% of the search engine market (the non-google part) down at the moment

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Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by gpvos »

npteljes wrote: post #228

I love the acknowledgement that DDG put on their page. We're currently experiencing an issue with DuckDuckGo Search. Thanks for your patience while we get our ducks in a row. In the meantime, you can use other search engines right here by using "bangs" So fun and straightforward.

Took them several hours to put that message there though.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by meonkeys »

256_ wrote: post #25

If you look up "hacker news", it at least shows you an insert from the Wikipedia article, even if there are no normal results: https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=hacker+news

I love this low-tech DDG interface! Made my day, thanks. (aha, https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/features/non-ja... mentions the "HTML" and "Lite" versions)

Also, why is your username green?

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by ohthatsnotright »

throwaway290 wrote: post #139
dzhiurgis wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

which is surprising given how unbearable google has gotten it's a bit like sticking to using windows in 2010

It's not surprising given how much better it is than everything else

I've been migrating away from google with their recent changes because it's gotten less and less useful in getting me the answers. DDG has done better, but it's not as good as Google used to be before it was taken over by MBAs.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by kornhole »

niutech wrote: post #316
devit wrote: post #253

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They probably start with Bing results and do custom filtering, ranking and presentation, so without the initial Bing results they can't do anything.

So basically DDG is the wrapper for Bing Search, not an "independent" search company as they claim.

Yes it is one of many metasearch sites and not actually a search engine. Other engines include Kagi, Yandex, Brave, Mojeek, Quant, and something called Google.
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