I’m finding the results are not helpful as they used to be and sometimes way past the topic I’m searching. This is very prevalent when I’m searching for pirate sites. I’m falling back to Searxng whenever this occurs.
Has anyone noticed it too? Has DDG upped their moderation?
DuckDuckGo is just a bing proxy. I think Microsoft is working on optimizing it for their copilot thing.
The DuckDuckGo search engine gets it’s results from the Bing search engine
Bing powers so much of the alternative (meta)sphere
duck duck go is showes Bing results. maybe Microsoft is doing somthing.
Which search engine is good to find pirate sites and other general websites
They don’t show up there for obvious reasons. Also sites disappear frequently, or move to new domains. You have to use alternative ways, bookmark megathreads and other collections where some other people frequently update the links, something for start:
- On lemmy: !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com read the sidebar
- https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/
- On github: https://github.com/Shakil-Shahadat/awesome-piracy
- Some good links are here as well: https://fmhy.net/
I also noticed a change. From one day to the next I suddenly got lots of reddit links in the top results
I also noticed redoing a search sometimes yields different results despite using the exact same keywords.
