It’s just handing your search off to Bing, and Microsoft just does what it does.
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Steve@communick.news 11 months agoIt’s great that DDG doesn’t track a users searches. It really is.
But at the end of the day, it’s still just an ad platform being used by companies to sell you things.
And here you are complaining about someone explaining an alternative ad-free search. Just think about that for a moment.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Steve@communick.news 11 months ago
DDG pays Bing to use their API. DDG makes money by placing ads in the results.
ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Also, if we’re being frank, DDG’s results are damn near useless half the time.
_pete_@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hard disagree with that, DDG searches are accurate about 90% of the time that I use it (which as a web dev is quite a lot) if they aren’t hitting Google with the same term rarely wields any better results.
governorkeagan@lemdro.id 11 months ago
I’ve had the same experience as you. The vast majority of the time, I can get the results that I want.
ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
It also doesn’t allow you to actually exclude keywords. Which can be utterly infuriating if you’re looking for a specific entry in a franchise or a lesser used definition of something.