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While 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.
Mojeek, fully independent index. self-disclosure: CEO
I grew up using Google (and ask jeeves and yahoo.) In school, google won. Now, google sucks. It's all ads, AI SEO maxxing, and the work to find useful results has gone up manyfold. I found myself using site:"" to get closer to what I needed. I tried DDG, and it's more or less the same, but it's like the search engine is conspiring against you to more or less find completely useless results. I tried kagi, and i love i…
It's 300 searches per month for the cheapest Kagi plan. For me that has been enough so far. Some days I search a lot and then other days almost nothing so on average I never passed the 300/month so far.
Same as an ISP with a bandwidth limit, even if it's much higher than I'm likely to need, it's not something I'm interested in having to keep track of or worry about.
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?
I was formerly a huge advocate of DDG but between the Microsoft ad tracking the company was paid to include without disclosing to users [1] and their pro-censorship stance on the Ukraine war [2], they lost my trust.
Turns out Duck Duck Go is not a serious company. They are not serious about privacy and they are not serious about censorship, two principles I hold dear.
"It takes years to build trust and seconds to destroy it." - Warren Buffett
Now search.brave.com is my default on both Desktop and iOS (using the excellent Safari extension Hyperweb)
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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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Quant or Qwant? Qwant does not rely on the Bing api but has its own index.
Are you sure about that? It doesn't completely rely on it but didn't it use bing as one of the search providers? I'm probably completely wrong and my info is outdated but I'm asking because it would be pretty special (in a good way!) if they use their own index exclusively.
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Yep [1] is also a new interesting search engine, based on the index that Ahrefs [2], a SEO toolkit, has been keeping for 13+ years. The only downsite is that it's slower than DDG and Google. [1] https://yep.com/ [2] https://ahrefs.com/
Very reactionary, but an index built by an SEO toolkit sounds like the worst experience, ever. Isn't SEO the thing which broke online search to begin with?
I'd say that was maybe the case in the beginning where spamming meta tags in your page made you rank well.
These days I feel like there's also benefits from the technical SEO front where search engines prioritize pages that are fast, work well on mobile, have correct meta information, don't load large images, pushed the adoption of https at the beginning etc.
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I believe that generally refers to all their custom answers, e.g. when you search for "weather ". Nevertheless, those don't seem to work either.
I bet their engineers are currently discussing how to make any such answers possible without Bing working, assuming the upstream data for them is not in fact also Bing.