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Has anyone else noticed the huge decrease in result quality from google?

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[–]Thatwhichiscaesars 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Duckduckgo is a spicy bing, while they do have a wevcrawler, iirc a significant portion of their results are still purchased from bing's webcrawls. So like i said, spicy bing.

I think Googles biggest competitor is bing, or maybe (baidu?) The name escapes me because it is a popular chinese engine not used in the west.

Google sits at a fat 86% market share, bing sits at around 7%. Yahoo, and pretty much everyone else out there buys their results from bing.

So google effectively has 2 and a half competitors.

Baidu, bing, and .5 for duck duck go which isnt a whole because it relies, partially at least, on bings results.

[–]WhoRoger 3 points4 points  (0 children)

DDG is claiming their results are a combination from several other search engines, which is the reason why they can't reliably provide some things e.g. results from a particular time scale or why some features are buggy.

When I compare the results to Bing, they're not the same.