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Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by calibas on Friday April 15, 2022 @06:16PM (#31046580)
HN constantly mentions DDG is really just Bing in disguise and they're essentially the same. However, that can't be entirely true because they produce different results for the same search term.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=obscure+search+term&ia=web

https://www4.bing.com/search?q=obscure+search+term

That being said, when Bing censored "tank man", DDG's image search also produced 0 results for "tank man".

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Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by mda on Friday April 15, 2022 @11:05PM (#31048997)
It is Bing, but they seem to use different ranking and filtering on the index.vIf you make complex queries it is quite obvious. Since they have zero transparency the details of their system and deal with bing is unclear.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by account42 on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @07:17AM (#31081682)
Between geotargeting and A/B testing and possible differences between the Bing API and public website you really can't conclude that DDG is not just what they get from Bing based on one example.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by BartBoch on Saturday April 16, 2022 @07:00AM (#31051379)
Did you try in incognito? Your search gave me nearly identical results.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by kiwijamo on Saturday April 16, 2022 @04:55PM (#31056013)
Very different ones here.
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