I’m pretty sure this is because Bing is the index source for general searching: duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/…/sources
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SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Their normal search is now near useless as well.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 days ago
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Nah, that’s Google you’re thinking of.
DDG isn’t GOOD, but it’s almost always good enough to eventually find what I need. Unlike Google, which is just ads and other useless results now.
beegnyoshi@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Mmm I’m sorry but I’m going to have to disagree. Google’s results are still better than ddg, which sources them from bing. In my experience, it is even more susceptible to SEO spam than google, even though both are pretty bad.
To me, search engines with interesting results are more stuff like marginalia and mojeek, but those are niche and not really for most people. They also have a tendency to give results that have nothing to do with the query, which is sad :(