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What search is better? I use DDG, and I also know search has been broken for years because of attention and surveillance economy.

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DDG is marginally better, but its search indexing just uses Bing's (which is dogwater terrible), and it isn't kept up to date.

Hey, I'm Caine from DuckDuckGo. I appreciate you advocating for us. Just one thing to clear up is that we just use Bing, that's a myth.

We are significantly more than that at this point, including that we've been working on our own web index for the past two years (https://insideduckduckgo.substack.com/p/duck-tales-why-duckd...).

But on top of that we don't get local results, knowledge graph, answers, sports, anything AI related, and many more essential modules from Bing, all of which collectively makes up a large % of the results at this point, let alone the vastly different UXs.

Hope that helps.

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