It looks like the ex-DDG employee got the details wrong, and read the slides backwards.

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    1 year ago

    At the very least, it’s no better than the alternatives any more. Whenever I put Duck Duck Go up against Google, I get very similar results, other than all the extra ads on Google.

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      1 year ago

      Same experience.
      I’ll click on a page, scroll for a bit, get frustrated, Ctrl-F for the active part of my search string, and not find it.
      I left Google because of that but it followed me to Duck Duck Go.

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      1 year ago

      DDG is just a front-end for Bing. There are very few search engines that actually do their own indexing.

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        1 year ago

        Interesting. I looked it up and found this, so it looks like it’s some hybrid of many sources:

        Most of our search result pages feature one or more Instant Answers. To deliver Instant Answers on specific topics, DuckDuckGo leverages many sources, including specialized sources like Sportradar and crowd-sourced sites like Wikipedia. We also maintain our own crawler (DuckDuckBot) and many indexes to support our results. Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing. Our focus is synthesizing all these sources to create a superior search experience.
        
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        1 year ago

        Well I noticed a difference between duckduckgo and Ecosia, both taking results from Bing. Not sure if it’s the language setting, or something else.