No mention of DDG in the comments? Is there a reason I'm not seeing or it's just not the preferred alt-search on HN? Seems to have been working fine for me when I struggle to get past the funnels and content mills on Google.
Bing:
1. How to Get Rich: 10 Things Wise and Rich People Do
2. 5 Ways to Get Rich - wikiHow
3. 16 Proven Ways On How To Get Rich Quick (2021 Edition) - TPS
4. How to Get Rich - NerdWallet
5. How to Get Rich: Follow our Step by Step Plan to Build ...
DDG:
1. How to Get Rich: 10 Things Wise and Rich People Do
2. 5 Ways to Get Rich - wikiHow
3. How to Get Rich - NerdWallet
4. 16 Proven Ways On How To Get Rich Quick (2021 Edition) - TPS
5. How to Get Rich: 8 Steps to Make Your First Million ...
It's no secret that DDG is using Bing so they're not trying to hide it. An easy way to verify it is to search for "what is my ip" on DDG and look for results where the IP number has been cached in the snippet, e.g.:
www.myipnumber.com What is my IP number - my IP address - MyIpNumber.com What is my IP Number? The IP Number of this machine is: 157.55.39.192. This number can also be represented as a 32-bit decimal number 2637637568, or as a 32-bit hexadecimal number 0x9D3727C0 . (Note that if you are part of an internal network then this is the IP number of your local server, the machine which is connected to the external ...
If you do an IP lookup on 157.55.39.192 you will see that it's in fact "Microsoft bingbot".
DDG also doesn't support showing a site's basic structure in the search results (ie, the card of a company's website with Products, Contact Us, Support, etc) and the preview text is garbo as well...it reminds me of 1990's era electronic card catalog search excerpts.
I look at the first page or two, give up, search google. While I have to hunt a bit in the results, I do eventually get what I wanted.
My searches tend to be keyword-oriented rather than natural language. I think DDG does better with those.