A startup is testing a subscription model for search engines

Re:A startup is testing a subscription model for search engines by Nginx487 on Monday July 06, 2020 @08:28PM (#23754348)

How it would fit the market with services like DuckDuckGo, Startpage and SearX? All these services provide internet search for free. DuckDuckGo has its own engine, Startpage and SearX are meta-engines, reusing existing services.

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Re:A startup is testing a subscription model for search engines by Shank on Monday July 06, 2020 @08:34PM (#23754381)

I hate to be the eleventh person to say this, but it bares repeating if it gets lost: DuckDuckGo primarily uses the Bing index and search engine for most results. There isn't any set of branding that says this plainly, but that's where most results are coming from. Startpage is pretty different because it uses Google under the hood, but I definitely get different results from Google, Startpage, and DuckDuckGo with regular frequency. Whatever the secret sauce is on top matters a lot in terms of presentation. Any engine that puts in effort for a target audience will be able to acquire users.

For me, DuckDuckHack has always returned really awesome results on top of what I consider to be a fairly lackluster set of results for some searches that bing provides. If another provider wanted to step it up with extra sauce on top, I'd be more than happy to try if it makes my day to day better.

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Re:A startup is testing a subscription model for search engines by Nginx487 on Monday July 06, 2020 @08:50PM (#23754460)

Thanks for the insight, however, would you provide some source, explaining how DuckDuckGo-Bing "hack" is implemented.

> but I definitely get different results from Google, Startpage, and DuckDuckGo

Different results from Google and Startpage are expected, because Google offers personalized search adjustment. Even if you're not logged in, Google uses Ubercookies and fingerprinting techniques to identify you as a unique user

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Re:A startup is testing a subscription model for search engines by Kiro on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @04:22AM (#23756900)

https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...

> > We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from multiple partners, though most commonly from Bing (and none from Google).

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