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DDG is an ok skin on bing search results, but their pushy and misleading marketing is a huge turn-off to me. And I'm very very sympathetic to the "we don't trac
by bla2 8y ago
DDG is an ok skin on bing search results, but their pushy and misleading marketing is a huge turn-off to me. And I'm very very sympathetic to the "we don't track you" cause in general.
- josefresco 8y agoI got downvoted the last time I posted this (love you HNers) but DDG states they're more than just a skinned Bing: https://duck.co/help/results/sources https://duck.co/help/results/sources
- bla2 8y agoThat links "more than 400 sources" to https://duck.co/ia https://duck.co/ia which in turn links to https://docs.duckduckhack.com/#improve-a-live-instant-answer https://docs.duckduckhack.com/#improve-a-live-instant-answer saying "DuckDuckHack is in Maintenance Mode". But https://docs.duckduckhack.com/welcome/how-ias-work.html https://docs.duckduckhack.com/welcome/how-ias-work.html suggests that these sources are for things displayed at the top, which I see super rarely. So this is in fact a nice example of misleading DDG PR.
- josefresco 8y agoMaybe. I just thought it makes sense to share what the "official" DDG position is when calling them out for being a simple "skin".
- Kiro 8y agoThe 400 sources are just for instant answers. The "normal" search results are all from Bing, Yahoo and Yandex.