Comment on Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find

• sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  DDG uses Bing’s results. Bing has deteriorated less than Google but it’s also becoming worse every day.

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  • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And it started out much worse, so eh, it still works worse for me than Google.

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  • ratcliff@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bing AND Yandex

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  • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It doesn’t use just bing anymore: duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/…/sources/

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    • euchriduk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That page is pretty misleading, though: it’s mostly talking about ‘Instant Amswers’ which is its AI (presumably) paid partnership answer bot thing at the top of the results. Further down, it says: “Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing.”

      So, although they don’t use Bing exclusively, that’s where the majority of non AI-answer-bot stuff is coming from. And I’m guessing the AI is Bing/Microsoft powered anyway, although I can’t be sure.

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