Well, DDG is basically a privacy friendly frontend to the G* search engine, so this was to be expected. Fortunately I switched to searx. The future of the internet is federation, there is no going back.
I mean it mostly uses Bing in the background rather than Google. Searx is kich the same in the sense it taps into other search engines. Except with Searx you get more control.
@IngrownMink4@lemmy.ml its own web crawler (duckduckgobot) uses Google search API (anonymously) It combines data from hundreds of sources including Wolfram Alpha, Wikipedia and Bing, but mostly Google.
@oscar@lemmy.ml Yep, if you want a completely independent and distributed search engine there is yacy.
Well, DDG is basically a privacy friendly frontend to the G* search engine, so this was to be expected. Fortunately I switched to searx. The future of the internet is federation, there is no going back.
I mean it mostly uses Bing in the background rather than Google. Searx is kich the same in the sense it taps into other search engines. Except with Searx you get more control.
DDG is a privacy friendly frontend to the Bing search engine.
Bing, right, not “Big” (had to re-read)
@IngrownMink4@lemmy.ml its own web crawler (duckduckgobot) uses Google search API (anonymously) It combines data from hundreds of sources including Wolfram Alpha, Wikipedia and Bing, but mostly Google.
@oscar@lemmy.ml Yep, if you want a completely independent and distributed search engine there is yacy.