DuckDuckGo has ai btw
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2026
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Does Bing not work? Because DDG gets results for me
People have this weird fetish for "Microsoft Bad". If it comes from Microsoft, it's bad by default. Reality doesn't matter.
The fact that Edge is just objectively a better browser than Chrome is irrelevant, because "Microsoft Bad".
The fact that Bing now provides just as good, if not better, results as Google, because Google enshittified its own product is irrelevant, because "Microsoft Bad".
The fact that Copilot runs on the exact same models as ChatGPT and gives practically identical results is irrelevant because "Microsoft Bad".
Etc., etc.
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in bings credit, it gave me the archive links to rock band 4s removed content for uhh... file existance purposes that google outirght scrubs out.
They could use Google as far as I'm concerned. From a privacy perspective if 1 million people are proxied through DDG, Google won't be able to collect any personal data as long as DDG can be trusted with their security. And as far as I'm concerned they can be.
startpage does that
ddg has always been bing, but it's always been pointless pointing. They laugh at maga, though, and wonder about sheep.
Didnt DDG get in trouble for selling/tracking user data without telling anyone? Or was that Brave Browser? Maybe it was both, I don't remember...
EDIT: Both. DDG made a deal to sell tracker data to Microsoft, and Brave Browser sold user data for AI training.
What's even the point of writing the comment when you don't remember? Just stirring drama for the sake of it isn't helping anyone.
What do you use?
Ok fine, point me to where I should be searching?
They currently use Google and Bing however the ad money goes towards things like planting trees and:
The internet just got better: our European search index goes live
https://blog.ecosia.org/launching-our-european-search-index/
They are slowly building their own search index
Metacrawler and AskJeeves
Hotbot
I mostly try to find something on Wikipedia first whenever I can (surprisingly often) and go from there.