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DAE feel like DuckDuckGo is now just as good as google for the vast majority of searches? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Not because DDG got better, but just because google got worse.

google is still better for site-specific searches, and google scholar still has minimal AI slop

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[–] nullPointer@programming.dev 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

isn't it just a bing wrapper?

[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No and kinda yes. Duckduckgo has its own webcrawler, but also adds in results from other sources including Bing, Yahoo and others.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Last time I checked, it matched Bing results exactly.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 2 points 20 hours ago

Yahoo is Bing too

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yup.