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What is the least SEO-fucked search engine? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What search engine is currently showing the most useful results? What other tricks do we have aside of adding "reddit" or whatever internet community to the results?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am not sure whether DDG or SearX results are optimised by someone, but it is different from what I would see on Google for a given topic.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

DDG seems to get most of their results from Bing, but they do tweak it a bit themselves. From the link:

Most of our search result pages feature one or more Instant Answers. To deliver Instant Answers on specific topics, DuckDuckGo leverages many sources, including specialized sources like Sportradar and crowd-sourced sites like Wikipedia. We also maintain our own crawler (DuckDuckBot) and many indexes to support our results. Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing. Our focus is synthesizing all these sources to create a superior search experience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Duckduckgo uses search results from Bing, combined with other search engines and their own bot if Wikipedia is to be believed.

No Google search results are used.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This explains why their results are so much worse than Google’s.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

5 years ago sure. Not sure I really agree nowadays.
Granted, that has as much to do with Google getting much worse as it does DDG getting better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Palpable 2015 energy in this take right here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For some things. For other things they're better. Google has really jumped the shark in the past two years.

I mostly just use it for when I want corporate style results, like shopping.