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You'd probably get a closer split with the general population, but for a search engine mainly used by privacy-conscious people and those wanting to get away from Google's bullshit, it makes sense.
Honestly, it was probably an ad in disguise. You want AI? We've got it! Don't want that bullshit? That's cool, we're not gonna shove it down your throat.
An ad that actually tells you some info after asking for info is honestly refreshing
But are you willing to click yes to find out?
They link to the “yes ai” and “no ai” versions either way you vote, just presented differently.
It's a little ironic because all the searches just go through Microslop's bullshit instead. Yes, DuckDuckGo is just Bing wearing a duck hat.
Better a proxy for Bing than Bing itself
Duckduckgo uses multiple search engines and does not just pipe queries into bing
They sure try to make it sound like that, but I ran a side-by-side comparison with sandboxed Bing and kept getting identical results.
Given that they've been in business for nearly 20 years, maintain their own crawler and have said multiple times they source results from a variety of sources I'd feel incredibly cheated if they were just returning bing results.
Plus I use bing at work and ddg results feel* better.
Pretty much anything feels better than "Binging it," but misleading people for a long time is nothing new.
I dont think theyre shipping raw bing results I just tested 5 searches and the 1St page of results was different between ddg and bing. Quite significantly and its jarring how shit bing is.
Notably, it's important to do these in sessions where no tracking cookies are possible.
Ah I did not do that
I did not know that, so no better than startpage, a netherlands based privacy minded proxy for google?