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bla2 | 7 years ago

DDG is an ok skin on bing search results, but their pushy and misleading marketing is a huge turn-off to me. And I'm very very sympathetic to the "we don't track you" cause in general.

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josefresco|7 years ago

I got downvoted the last time I posted this (love you HNers) but DDG states they're more than just a skinned Bing: https://duck.co/help/results/sources

bla2|7 years ago

That links "more than 400 sources" to https://duck.co/ia which in turn links to https://docs.duckduckhack.com/#improve-a-live-instant-answer saying "DuckDuckHack is in Maintenance Mode". But https://docs.duckduckhack.com/welcome/how-ias-work.html suggests that these sources are for things displayed at the top, which I see super rarely. So this is in fact a nice example of misleading DDG PR.