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I never figured out the hair-on-fire reaction from the start. Most who use torrent sites already have the sites bookmarked anyway.
this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2022
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I remember regularly using multiple search engines back in the day.
I would use yahoo, altavista, hotbot and excite and get varied results depending on what I searched.
I have been using DDG exclusively for years with good result, but it appears I need to find a couple of other search engines to work into the mix.
Searx kinda shoves a bunch of different search engines together into a frankenstein's monster. Although I think not all instances have all the search engines enabled.
You can limit the search engines used with stuff like !ddg or !google in your search.
if it comes down to torrent and piracy then Yandex is far far ahead than any other search engine!
Guess DDG will have to rely less on Bing then, no more excuses!
Hopefully the "DDG is turning into google" crowd can STFU now
Yeah, I'm all for using more different and especially non-US-based search engines, but so many people just accepted this as clear evidence that DuckDuckGo is evil, without giving it a second thought or awaiting DuckDuckGo's reaction...
Well they did it around the same time as the purge of alt media sites
Ah, you mean the pages they deemed Russian state propaganda. Don't have an opinion on that stunt, but yeah, I can see why people would then be anxious about those new changes...
This is not the only instance where DDG did something that bothered me. I'm now actively trying out non-US search engines like startpage.com .
Yeah I guess I wasn't very specific, of course its fine if people are unhappy and want to change services, but the amount of people that pounced on the omitted results from one torrent site without knowing the cause and just used it for self validation is wat I was meaning.