> For search engines, it's not Bing versus Google, there are DuckDuckGo, YaCy and so on.
DDG is just a wrapper for Bing.
DDG is just a wrapper for Bing.
Fwiw, I switched to DDG a ~year ago (can't remember honestly lol), and I've been quite happy. With that said, not a week goes by where I don't use the !g bang to run my search on Google. DDG just has terrible results. It's good enough a lot, maybe even most of the time, but frequently it's too terrible.
I'm still happy I switched, the "good enough" results are heavily reinforced by privacy, and not giving Google everything. The fact remains though, DDG misses the mark for me frequently.
"generates those results from over 400 individual sources, including key crowdsourced sites such as Wikipedia, and other search engines like Bing, Yahoo!, Yandex, and Yummly.[6][7]" as well as DuckDuckBot.
Also, more importantly, Bing, like google and facebook is building personal dossiers on everyone, while DDG is not.
“Just a wrapper” is misleading, but DDG returns bing results at least some of the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo
https://web.archive.org/web/20150124074006/https://duck.co/h...
https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2017/08/15/bing_microsoft_...
If bing offers up the best results most of the time DDG will, as a result, offer up bing results most of the time. "Best results" easily determinable even with DDG privacy constraints.
They're definitely doing some cool stuff at DDG and its certainly a hell of a lot more than "a wrapper around bing." I just don't think expanding their own index infrastructure is something feasible for them right now.