I Ditched Google for DuckDuckGo

Re:I Ditched Google for DuckDuckGo by bla3 on Monday December 02, 2019 @07:38PM (#21688751)

That page basically confirms this. It says

> To do that, we've developed an open source Instant Answer platform called DuckDuckHack,

which links to https://duckduckhack.com/ which says "DuckDuckHack is now in Maintenance Mode".

And the "four hundred sources" link links to 400 special case replies. They are probably useful, but fire rarely. It's basically Bing, and that page is a bunch of spin.

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Re:I Ditched Google for DuckDuckGo by lukewrites on Monday December 02, 2019 @07:44PM (#21688786)

Yeah, it's interesting to do comparison searches between ddg and bing. On a few random searches I found I got identical top results - things start to differentiate after the first four or five.

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Re:I Ditched Google for DuckDuckGo by rovr138 on Monday December 02, 2019 @11:19PM (#21689887)

So it's like a metasearch engine which also includes crawling of their own. Similar to dogpile[0],

> Powered by Metasearch technology, Dogpile returns all the best results from leading search engines including Google and Yahoo!, so you find what you’re looking for faster. [1]

[0] - https://www.dogpile.com

[1] - https://www.dogpile.com/support/aboutus

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Re:I Ditched Google for DuckDuckGo by bla3 on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @10:02AM (#21702711)

As far as I know they don't do any crawling on their own. It's also not meta: it's just bing and some special cases.

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