Re:DuckDuckGo owns the #2 position in mobile market share in...
by Kiro on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @05:03PM
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Reading between the lines it sounds like they are only using their own crawlers and other partners for things like widgets, while all their regular search results are still just Bing.
Re:DuckDuckGo owns the #2 position in mobile market share in...
by karaterobot on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @05:09PM
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I was going to say that if the two search engines index and rank in a similar way, you would expect the search to be similar. But, for the `uefi hack` search, the results really are pretty close to identical, and when I do the same search on Kagi and Google, I get different results. I still don't know if it proves anything, but it's a little suspicious.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=uefi+hack https://www.bing.com/search?q=uefi+hack
And the exclusion filters fail identically, on "uefi hack -bootkit": https://duckduckgo.com/?q=uefi+hack+-bootkit https://www.bing.com/search?q=uefi+hack+-bootkit
And partially succeed identically: 'uefi hack "absolute computrace"': https://duckduckgo.com/?q=uefi+hack+%22absolute+computrace%2... https://www.bing.com/search?q=uefi+hack+%22absolute+computra...
The only differences seem to be the suggestions, infoboxes and similar "value adds."