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Re:Techdirt Has Been Deleted from Bing and DuckDuckGo by flyinghamster on Thursday July 27, 2023 @04:05PM (#36899387)
More and more, our search-fu is being actively thwarted. Tools to tailor our search have been steadily taken away: exclusion/inclusion operators, verbatim search ignored, and on and on.
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Re:Techdirt Has Been Deleted from Bing and DuckDuckGo by autoexec on Friday July 28, 2023 @02:03AM (#36903510)
> exclusion/inclusion operators, verbatim search ignored, and on and on.

I've been assuming that this was just a bug with DDG and not a deliberate attempt to cripple their search engine. I've seen it with Google results too, but I could buy that Google would break them, since making websites harder to find encourages people to pay for prominently placed ads, but what would DDG's motivation be?

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Re:Techdirt Has Been Deleted from Bing and DuckDuckGo by tourmalinetaco on Friday July 28, 2023 @11:38AM (#36908477)
Well DDG earns money from ads as well, so presumably the same reason.
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