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Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin... by ColinHayhurst on Thursday March 10, 2022 @01:16PM (#30630341)
To what extent does their agreement with Microsoft allow them to change rankings? Will Ecosia, Qwant, Yahoo! and so on be doing, or have to do, the same?
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Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin... by mrweasel on Thursday March 10, 2022 @03:12PM (#30631821)
As I understand it, based on previous comments on HN they can change ranking and inject results from their crawler into the search. The assumption that it’s just Bing comes which a bunch of asteriskes.
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