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Re:Measuring the “Filter Bubble”: How Google is influencing ... by Kiro on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @01:01PM (#18610717)
No, they can't since DDG is a wrapper for Bing.
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Re:Measuring the “Filter Bubble”: How Google is influencing ... by therein on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @02:50PM (#18611783)
I have been using DDG primarily ever since Google tried to pull that login shenanigan on Chrome users. Switched to FF and DDG and with the occasional !g, I'm content. Try !b and tell me it's the same as DDG's results.
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Re:Measuring the “Filter Bubble”: How Google is influencing ... by Kiro on Thursday December 06, 2018 @03:48AM (#18616367)
https://duck.co/help/results/sources

> In fact, DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from a variety of partners, including Oath (formerly Yahoo) and Bing.

What this means is that they use 400 sources for things like Instant Answers and other widgets but Yahoo and Bing for all their organic search results.

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Re:Measuring the “Filter Bubble”: How Google is influencing ... by mda on Thursday December 06, 2018 @05:46AM (#18616914)
So its 95% bing/yahoo. I wish they were more transparent. But it does not sound nice when they say do not useevilgoogle instead use our slightly modified bing/yahoo wrapper.
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Re:Measuring the “Filter Bubble”: How Google is influencing ... by therein on Thursday December 06, 2018 @06:07PM (#18623385)
Is it against the ToS of Google to perform search on someone's behalf and relay them the results?
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Re:Measuring the “Filter Bubble”: How Google is influencing ... by mda on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @03:09PM (#18611950)
I think they sometimes mix yandex, yahoo and other stuff as well. There is a reason they never disclose what percentage of queries are served from which source, kinda spoils their magic i guess. Kudos to bing team though, they seem to improved quite a bit apparently.
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