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Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook? by monsieurgaufre on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:21PM (#22140328)
DDG is bad as soon as you're not in the US of A and/or speak any language that is not english.
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Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook? by jredwards on Friday January 24, 2020 @01:38PM (#22141132)
It's not very good for english speakers in the US, either. The bang syntax is fantastic, but the search results are crap.

Didn't someone demonstrate pretty conclusively that underneath all of the specialization it was just bing?

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Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook? by Crash0v3rid3 on Saturday January 25, 2020 @10:01AM (#22146482)
It's Bing and a few other sources.

They also claim to have their own web crawler but I've never seen it crawl any of my pages before.

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Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook? by djsumdog on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:35PM (#22140481)
What about Russian? I'm not sure if they still do, but at one point they licensed a large chunk of their index from Yandex.
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Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook? by monsieurgaufre on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:58PM (#22140735)
As I don't speak russian, I can't answer you.
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Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook? by Nextgrid on Friday January 24, 2020 @02:25PM (#22141570)
No idea but I’d be curious to know the answer.
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