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Results in Duckduckgo have changed? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by zerozaku@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I'm finding the results are not helpful as they used to be and sometimes way past the topic I'm searching. This is very prevalent when I'm searching for pirate sites. I'm falling back to Searxng whenever this occurs.

Has anyone noticed it too? Has DDG upped their moderation?

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[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 85 points 1 week ago

DuckDuckGo is just a bing proxy. I think Microsoft is working on optimizing it for their copilot thing.

[-] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Huh? Doesn't DDG uses the os default webview?

[-] FrederikNJS@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago

The DuckDuckGo search engine gets it's results from the Bing search engine

[-] Mojeek@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Bing powers so much of the alternative (meta)sphere

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