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minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 month agoDDG is just Bing
minus-squareriwo@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·1 month agobut at least it allows me to disable ads and allegedly opt out of tracking
minus-squareN.E.P.T.R@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-21 month agoMain reason I like DDG is that it acts as a proxy (meaning I blend into crowd of all DDG users) and the HTML frontend doesn’t require JS or ads.
minus-squaretheneverfox@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 month agoIt uses Bing, when you use a search engine through an API you get more levers and dials to play with than an end user normally has
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·30 days agoI did a side-by-side comparison with Bing from the browser and got identical results.
DDG is just Bing
but at least it allows me to disable ads and allegedly opt out of tracking
Main reason I like DDG is that it acts as a proxy (meaning I blend into crowd of all DDG users) and the HTML frontend doesn’t require JS or ads.
It uses Bing, when you use a search engine through an API you get more levers and dials to play with than an end user normally has
I did a side-by-side comparison with Bing from the browser and got identical results.