• tabular@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Sudo already exists, is it okay to just name a different program by the same name?

    Guess which one Bing search will try harder to return.

    • Salzkrebs@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      I hate searching for sway config stuff using DDG (which returns Bing results).

      Chances are never zero that that there is an outdated MS product with the same name of what you’re searching.

      • Victor@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Hold up. DDG returns Bing results? TIL. Is that true? How do we know? Do they state this, themselves?

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          10 months ago

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

          Most of our search result pages feature one or more Instant Answers. To deliver Instant Answers on specific topics, DuckDuckGo leverages many sources, including specialized sources like Sportradar and crowd-sourced sites like Wikipedia. We also maintain our own crawler (DuckDuckBot) and many indexes to support our results. Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing. Our focus is synthesizing all these sources to create a superior search experience.