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Re:Bing Search API Pricing Update: Massive Price Increase by mattlondon on Friday February 17, 2023 @01:47AM (#34831618)
This would be a real shame.

I think that DDG has its own crawler and index that it uses to "supplement" the results. I wonder if that is fully fleshed out or just something tiny and inconsequential.

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Re:Bing Search API Pricing Update: Massive Price Increase by panarky on Friday February 17, 2023 @02:02AM (#34831700)
If DDG has their own crawler, then why was DDG unable to find any results for "tank man" searches when Microsoft caved and censored Bing search worldwide?
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Re:Bing Search API Pricing Update: Massive Price Increase by Springtime on Friday February 17, 2023 @02:13AM (#34831767)
They previously also used Yandex for results when the region setting was switched to Russia. Was sometimes useful for seeing what other results were available, as DDG/Bing's results aren't always fruitful particularly with finer queries (increasingly so I've found in the past 1-2 years, which I've begun documenting).
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