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Comment by leereeves | Hacker News Reader

Comparing the results, in a search for "Neeva", the only results they have in common on the first page are exact name matches and one article from the NY Times:

DDG:

neeva.co, neeva.co/blog, moneycontrol.com, indiatimes.com, nytimes.com, neeva.tech, neevagroup.com, babycenter.com

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=neeva&atb=v63-1&ia=web

Bing:

neeva.co, nytimes.com, androidauthority.com, medium.com, oflox.com, gomoguides.com, neeva.tech, neevagroup.com

https://www.bing.com/search?q=neeva

(I don't use Bing, and DDG isn't supposed to track me, so neither should be personalized results.)

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Not sure why this is getting downvoted. Even if DDG is built mostly on top of Bing, the discrepancy would be interesting to explain.

Different index algos and filter bubble. People don’t get the same search engine results.

In my opinion, it is due to location. Bing returns 8 results on the first page, and DDG returns 10 results. At the top of the Bing page, I can see that Bing already takes my location into account (and it is precise, it is my city), so there is no box to tick. Once I tick the "location" box on DDG (it is only the country), I get 7 identical results out of 8 on the first page! The order is the same for results 1-4, the 5th result is different, the 6th result is identical, and results 7-8 are identical but their positions are swapped.

That's interesting. By location, do you mean the box that says "All Regions"? I get the same results on DDG (different from Bing) whether I set that to "All Regions" or "US (English)".

For me, it is a setting to tick, which mentions the country:

https://i.imgur.com/fML3x0l.png (in French)

Once it is set to my country (France), then I get almost identical results.

I don't know how to deactivate this feature on Bing, so I could not compare Bing and DDG in the case where the "location" setting would be ticked off on both sites.

I use Bing and Google normally. I never use DDG. My results are different than yours. Including things that you don’t have.

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