News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on We Can Choose an Internet Without Surveillance. Parent comment

Re:We Can Choose an Internet Without Surveillance by prophesi on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @02:10PM (#21528153)
Just gonna toss StartPage (https://www.startpage.com/) out there as an alternative to Google.

DDG uses bing under the hood. StartPage proxies requests to Google. I've just personally found the latter to give better consistent results, particularly with my searches for technical/programming issues.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We Can Choose an Internet Without Surveillance by rapnie on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @02:33PM (#21528459)
You might reconsider your use of StartPage. It was taken over by an Ad company recently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21371577

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We Can Choose an Internet Without Surveillance by eindiran on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @02:24PM (#21528342)
DuckDuckGo doesn't "use bing under the hood" exactly: it has a large number of sources, including some other search engines like Bing, Yahoo and Yandex but also its own crawler ("DuckDuckGoBot")[0].

[0] https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We Can Choose an Internet Without Surveillance by prophesi on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @05:59PM (#21530688)
Thank you for the correction; is this a recent development? I'll definitely give DDG another try, especially in light of rapnie's comment about StartPage's recent acquisition by a company with a very likely conflict of interest.
[ Parent | on HN ]