DuckDuckGo Search Improvements

Re:DuckDuckGo Search Improvements by MadWombat on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @03:12PM (#21262474)

> They aren't a first class search engine, they get results from other search engines. Perform a search on DDG, then do the same search on Bing

You search for the thing and you find the thing. Why do you expect the results, especially the top results, to be different? Is there any other evidence that they are not doing searches themselves?

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Re:DuckDuckGo Search Improvements by WD-42 on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @03:38PM (#21262775)

Because that's how it works? They even document it themselves: https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/?redir=1

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Re:DuckDuckGo Search Improvements by fredsanford on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:55PM (#21265459)

Doesn't yahoo use bing for searches? I'd swear it did at one point.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Search Improvements by rvnx on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @03:36PM (#21262746)

duckduckgo-owned-server.yahoo.net ? Same results and order as Yahoo on obscure keywords

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Re:DuckDuckGo Search Improvements by rjf72 on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @05:25PM (#21263992)

Which keywords? I just searched (as posted above) for "extent space taco secure". It breaks bing. Yahoo returns results that are closer (including some shared oddities like storage units in Nashville), but they're still very distinctly unique.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Search Improvements by rvnx on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @02:13AM (#21267559)

"squalala" Country Estonia

100% match between DDG and Yahoo from my tests

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