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Google’s claim that search users have choice is “bogus,” Microsoft CEO tells judge (arstechnica.com)

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Google’s claim that search users have choice is “bogus,” Microsoft CEO tells judge::Google's search dominance creates "vicious cycle," Satya Nadella testified.

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[-] Pantoffel@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

There are really only two search engines. Its either Google or Bing. The others exist, but they use Google's and/or Bing's search results.

[-] avater@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

since when uses ddg google or bing ?

[-] Jamie@jamie.moe 6 points 1 year ago

DDG is Bing by proxy, has been for ages. A while back they had a controversy for having microsoft trackers or something like that, and mentioned it was some stipulation for using Bing results. But they still backed off on that anyway.

[-] float@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

DuckDuckGo's results are a compilation of "over 400" sources according to itself, including Bing, Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Yandex, and its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot); but none from Google. It also uses data from crowdsourced sites such as Wikipedia, to populate knowledge panel boxes to the right of the search results.

Source: Wikipedia

So it's definitely not a "proxy to Bing" but it does use data from Bing.

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