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You cant even avoid irrelevant results with "site:" anymore (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] whynotzoidberg@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FWIW DuckDuckGo sources the traditional links / results from Bing. Their Instant Answers info does come directly from other sources, e.g. Wikipedia.

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

[โ€“] melonpunk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Good to know, thanks. I'd heard that DDG sources its results from other engines, though I thought they were ramping up their own index. Honestly, I haven't paid close enough attention to it all. Nor have I tried Bing given that DDG has generally been good enough for me to not bother looking elsewhere.