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I hope they make an impact with their search.
I remember some years back a new search project named "Cuil" launched. I think they were former Google engineers, and had a huge search index, but a poor algorithm. #Cuil did not last long.
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@musicman They don't seem to be running Duckbot anymore, just grabbing results straight from #Bing. And Bing's results were almost as bad as Ask's, last time I checked.
So, yeah, I don't know how #DDG (and to some extent #Yahoo) were able to do it before, but their results were far better than Bing's despite mostly coming from Bing. Now, they're pretty similar ... and overall bad.
I still go to #DuckDuckGo first, but more and more, I find myself going to #Startpage or directly to #Google after a failed DDG search.
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@lxo #Searx is a metasearching front end. If I want it to give the kind of results I want, I need to select good back end engines for it to use.
For example, if it uses #Bing, the results it receives from Bing will be bad ... Searx can mix better results from elsewhere to improve what it gives to its users, but why not just remove low quality searches entirely?