• upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    DDG is more of a privacy frontend for Bing then its own search engine. Typically if its not on Bing its not gonna be on DDG.

    Works on both Brave and Google via Mullvad Leta

    • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Ddg gets its results from more than just bing as well as doing some curation on top.

      • upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        This is true. Although the curation is minimal and while bing isn’t the only source its the main source.

        Feel free to compare the results of a ddg search and bing search.

  • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Is it a surprise? Bing is controlled by M$, and their search results are taken by Qwant and DDG. Ecosia also runs with google results so it isn’t affected.

    • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Jokes on you, i tried using qwant and they just straight up deny me access because using a VPN apparently is “suspicious”.

    • Sonalder@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Wait Ecosia switched from Bing to Google?

      Startpage was the only commercial search engine indexing Google from my knowledge.

          • Kualdir@feddit.nlEnglish
            1·
            1 month ago

            Wow I’ve learned something new today. From the ads I have clicked on ecosia it always used a bing redirect. Perhaps it also kinda depends on region? I assume yahoo ads aren’t as popular/good paying in the EU as bing