Bing by any other name is still bing.
Edit: Awww some people either don’t know or don’t like that bing is what duckduckgo is. https://www.tomshardware.com/software/search-engines/microsoft-suffering-from-outage-bing-copilot-and-duckduckgo-inaccessible-for-several-hours
At best this is as intelligent as saying Google Maps is YouTube by another name because they’re both on Google servers. Even that would be smarter to say actually, because Google Maps and YouTube are owned by the same company.
When bing goes down so does duckduckgo but somehow your apples to oranges argument is somehow comparative to you.
Yes, duckduckgo uses other search engines to provide its results. Your point?
I don’t care where duckduckgo gets the links from, I care how relevant the top links are and that they aren’t being crowded out by ads.
No need to be defensive, ddg uses bing which means it is part of the big five under the hood. That always will have certain ramifications in the long run.
I also use it but I am looking for decentralised alternatives in meantime not because ddg is bad but because sooner or later it will get worse.
Also why are you so aggressive anyway, it’s super weird and doesn’t fit Lemmy