DuckDuckGo uses Bing as well, so I’m not sure why it’s better for you than Yahoo or bing.com. I personally am fine using DDG, as it provides the results I’m looking for and doesn’t track me for asking.
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exohuman@programming.dev 9 months ago
The article’s whole argument sounds like one of the weakest and most common corporate speak nonsense arguments that come up whenever there is a monopoly. It’s almost an admission of being a monopoly.
That said, the “bowsers providing Google search by default money” is probably the economic reason why we still have a Firefox web browser (the only real, fully functioning alternative to the webkit/blink browsers like Chrome). For a long time, it was a significant source of their income.
Also, the alternatives to Google search need to step up their game. As a tech worker, Bing sucks for results. Yahoo does too since it gets results from Bing. DuckDuckGo isn’t bad. Anyone know better alternatives?
NotBadAndYou@ttrpg.network 9 months ago
exohuman@programming.dev 9 months ago
According to Wikipedia:
DuckDuckGo’s results are a compilation of “over 400” sources according to itself, including Bing, Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Yandex, and its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot); but none from Google.
That explains why the results are better than Bing for me.
BloodSlut@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ecosia is also decent, respects privacy, and uses proceeds to plant trees
exohuman@programming.dev 9 months ago
Never heard of that. I will try it.