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In the Google antitrust trial, defaults are everything and nobody likes Bing (www.theverge.com)
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[–] accideath@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can only recommend you try DuckDuckGo. In my experience, 99% of time, the search results are much, much better than either Google or Bing.

[–] staticblanket@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

God bless duckduckgo.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

DuckDuckGo is Bing though. But I agree, search results are absolutely fine compared to Google, and they don't have the stupid spam nonsense that Bing has.

[–] accideath@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Nope, they aren’t. At least not just. DuckDuckGo uses Bing among about 400 other sources like Yandex, Wolfram Alpha, Yahoo! Search BOSS and even their own webcrawler. On top of that, they filter out and downrank content mills, pages with too much advertising and websites deemed to have low journalistic standards. So is literally bringing together the search results from all the sources and filtering out the garbage. And on top of that, they have way less ads and tracking than either Google or Bing

Source: Wikipedia

[–] Mkengine@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to Wikipedia Bing is only part of the results: "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."

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Sure. But I'd be surprised if Bing wasn't the primary source. Regardless, the results are pretty good, and I don't mind the ads it uses.