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DDG uses bing search behind the scenes. In terms of the quality of the results, those two should be the same. Bing has more "related" links sprinkled in with its results, but the main results are the same between the two.

It is accurate to say DDG uses bing behind the scenes, but that is not its only source. They have their own crawler (DuckDuckBot[1]), and pull results from many sources[2].

1. https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduc...

2. https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources...

Their own crawler is only used for widgets and other fluff.

Every month I fallback less to Google, from DDG. Google is becoming ABetterSearchForAmazon.

Just now I was searching for flares,and after 5 attempts with different keywords I could not even get the Wikipedia page, just ads and blog spam for boating flares. Went to ddg and got informative links and the wiki entry first try.

Google is garbage, has been for quite some time.

And ABetterSearchForReddit. That's about it for me, besides local searches.

I've found DuckDuckGo to have more spam than Google in a lot of cases.

How so? what scope are your searches?

Probably because DDG is shit compared to google. It consistently misinterprets context, it’s shy about domain-specific searches, especially involving pornography, and struggles to ‘correct’ poorly-written search strings.

It doesn’t come with the baggage that google does, ovviously, but let’s not pretend it’s any kind of real competition in terms of functionality.

Funny how I get the opposite result with google, which ignores my quoted text and tries to feed me whatever it believes I want to look up, instead of the exact matches. Especially annoying for code searches.

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