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Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by AJ007 on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @07:04AM (#22116792)
Bing and Yandex are worth trying too. I just had a total failure from a Google search yesterday, where the official site for a piece of software wasn’t on the first 3 pages. I went over to bing and it was #1. I’m getting to the point where I predict a search will fail on google and I go to another engine. This never happened before, even in the Demand Media content farm debacle where horse shit ehow ranking for millions of major keywords.

I’ve been using the web since the best option was Yahoo’s hand curated directories. Google is in really serious trouble. These search engine switches happen very quickly, as soon as one of them is showing better results, the switch happens abruptly and it’s one way.

Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by dfrankow on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @07:51AM (#22117060)
Isn't ddg Bing results?
Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by klingonopera on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @08:13AM (#22117221)
Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by Kiro on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @09:24AM (#22117750)
Try "what is my ip" and you will see that DDG displays 207.46.13.131 in the cached snippets, which is Microsoft Bingbot and also the same IP that Bing shows in their cached snippets.
Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by frosted-flakes on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @08:09AM (#22117192)
DDG has their own crawler, but they augment results using Yandex and perhaps Bing too.
Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by IndexPointer on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @08:34AM (#22117360)
I remember reading that it uses only Bing for web results and their crawler for Wikipedia only.
Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by kube-system on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @10:45AM (#22118473)
I know they (at least used to) use some results from Yandex