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[-] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 months ago

It's Bing without tracking. And the things like quotation marks still work. However, baseline search using it has still gone to shit.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 1 points 4 months ago

Did it used to be better? I rarely if ever used it before Google's enshittification, but now I'm just happy to find ~~streaming services~~ whatever I need.

It did, but Bing hiked their prices so it got shitty.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online -1 points 4 months ago

Oh, "it" meaning Bing then, not DDG. Although I thought Bing had always been free... shows what I "know"!:-P

DDG uses Bing on the backend, and they have to pay for each query, so Bing affects DDG

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 1 points 4 months ago

Oh damn, thanks for the explanation! 😀

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

No, I've been using it for about 4 years or more, I think, and the search is stably kind of okay. Some time ago Google used to work when ddg failed, but…

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