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Windscribe is that VPN that does the racism on Twitter/X right?
Re:What Happened to DuckDuckGo? on Thursday May 23, 2024 @05:29AM (#40452481)
like a very large number of things we are pitched as search engines: https://www.searchenginemap.com/
the AI will continue until morale improves
Re:Mojeek on Thursday February 29, 2024 @03:26AM (#39547455)
the duck is a wrapper for bing and this has its own index of results, if bing decides they don't want to service duck or they want to raise prices the ding dong, the duck is dead
A specification for those who want content searchable on search engines, but not used for machine learning.

Publishers need improved ways to indicate how they want content to be used in search and machine learning. Using robots.txt does not cover all use cases, and so a complementary approach is needed as proposed here. It is one which can be applied to individual webpages as desired, and can be preserved as such in datasets of web content.

"We, the undersigned, commit ourselves to rebuilding the internet so that it returns to the ideals set out by its founders: a democratic platform designed to facilitate the free exchange of information, open communication, and privacy for the individual. In doing so, we believe it can serve the needs of people, not just corporations. This internet should be private by default and give each user a choice over who has access to — as well as control over — their personal data. An internet like this would be open and accessible to everyone, support democratic values, protect the fundamental right to privacy, and ensure free access to information. "
DuckDuckGo is Bing.
Browsers are walled gardens, it's better not to use this one, especially as the company deals with other things which involve Microsoft. Any link to them means the privacy sell is a bit sketchy to me.
Bitcoin and DeFi don't have utility outside of gambling and pump and dumps. Not everything (tbh not really anything) needs crypto.
Re:Ask HN: Any search engine better than DDG? on Friday June 25, 2021 @03:24AM (#27628033)
Not many indexes out there: https://searchenginemap.com

Ecosia = Bing = DDG = Qwant

They did copy SV, the product just sources results from Bing, like DuckDuckGo does.
This might be of use to you also: https://searchenginemap.com/
A sea of comments and this one is the only one mentioning Bork. Well played. Hopefully we can swim closer to looking at things in the round rather than this very narrow and very conservative view of the structures in which we live and operate.
Prime DDG nonsense this, they're pretty much Bing all t h e

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Re:Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @05:48AM (#26565228)
It's not a search engine, it's just something built on top of Bing. We need something independent to cut through this, it can't have these ties.
Any time I see someone try and sell their product as "the first" it just reeks of marketing.
I think that kind of is the point though...