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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by bubblethink on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @03:36PM (#13934049)
I wonder how much of Linux's recent success (I know it's still a tiny fraction) is just because of Google. I can't imagine using Linux if you take away the ability to Google. The fact that usually the results are posts by actual people and not some company stooge makes a world of difference.
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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by djent on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @03:48PM (#13934169)
You get the same results on DuckDuckGo, etc. there's no search engine lock-in here.
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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by adrianratnapala on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @04:17PM (#13934452)
No tajen, at least the Wikipedia article for DDG gives no hint that it uses the Google backend. Nor had I ever heard of such a thing.
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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by tajen on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @04:02PM (#13934314)
Sorry, doesn't DDG use Google as a back-end, just anonymizing the results?
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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by linkregister on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @05:51PM (#13935340)
DDG uses a variety of search engines' responses, including Google's. It has its own crawler as well.

https://duck.co/help/results/sources

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