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Re:DuckDuckGo Down by elevatedastalt on Thursday May 23, 2024 @05:28PM (#40460115)
The legal term is "deception".
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Re:DuckDuckGo Down by ThrowawayTestr on Thursday May 23, 2024 @06:32PM (#40460680)
Taking someone else's product and making it better is a useful service.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Down by arrowsmith on Friday May 24, 2024 @07:50AM (#40465187)
It's not deception if you tell people you're doing it.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Down by elevatedastalt on Friday May 24, 2024 @12:08PM (#40467541)
DDG massively oversells their own contribution to the search results.

If you look at their marketing material, they claim to "use a variety of sources, 500+ to bring you your search results". This is of course technically correct, but the truth is they are a relatively thin wrapper on Bing results.

So yes, I'd claim it is a form of deception.

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