Like I said, it’s one of the engines that drive DuckDuckGo. These days I only turn to Google on the rare occasion that DuckDuckGo fails me, so Bing gets some appreciation from me there.
Not just DuckDuckGo - the majority of search engines and voice assistants that aren’t Google use data from Bing. It’s the largest search engine that has a public API. Even search engines that have their own index usually use Bing to supplement their results.
Something really cool you can do though is block sites from showing up in the results.
So if you’re looking up Linux answers for instance and you keep coming across “First of all, what is a Linux, we’re going to…” Ai slop sites, you can click thr 3 dots next to the result and tell it to blacklist that site.
You’re quite limited on how many sites you can block. I at least try to report them, but it’s 90% of results and ai just keeps generating new domain names. Welcome to homehelpfixshowervalve.com!
Edge is just Chromium now (so worth hating still, but for different reason), and Bing has its uses. Hell, isn’t DuckDuckGo basically Bing?
Porn?
Also yes.
Go on…
Like I said, it’s one of the engines that drive DuckDuckGo. These days I only turn to Google on the rare occasion that DuckDuckGo fails me, so Bing gets some appreciation from me there.
Google isn’t as good as it was and bing isn’t as bad as it once was
Not just DuckDuckGo - the majority of search engines and voice assistants that aren’t Google use data from Bing. It’s the largest search engine that has a public API. Even search engines that have their own index usually use Bing to supplement their results.
Unfortunately even most DDG results are just ai slop now.
Something really cool you can do though is block sites from showing up in the results.
So if you’re looking up Linux answers for instance and you keep coming across “First of all, what is a Linux, we’re going to…” Ai slop sites, you can click thr 3 dots next to the result and tell it to blacklist that site.
Not perfect, but definitely helps!
You’re quite limited on how many sites you can block. I at least try to report them, but it’s 90% of results and ai just keeps generating new domain names. Welcome to homehelpfixshowervalve.com!
Oh my gosh the hyper-specific domain names are the WORST. ☠️
It’s like a dream come true for all those get-rich-online-Lambo-selfie-bullshit-artists!
But having to pay for those domains, and ad eords worth much less now, how the heck is this strategy even worth it I wonder?
Id feel better about DuckDuckGo if it wasnt shoehorning ai
DDG seems fairly gentle about pushing it though.
Meh
There is noai.duckduckgo.com at least? Yeah, meh. Still American.
Qwant/Ecosia team up for new European search engine development waiting room.
(in comparison to others)
Google has been enshittified to the point where I constantly have to re-search on Bing to actually find an answer.
Yup. Never understood the Bing hate, they got better years ago. DDG is a source in my SearXNG instance, does fine.
Yeah, it’s like bing but actually anonymous.