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gedaliyah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago

Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google

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gedaliyah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago
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%%excerpt%% Reddit has commenced its assault on search engines, blocking those that don’t have a commercial relationship with the company, like Google.
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    Bing by any other name is still bing.

    Edit: Awww some people either don’t know or don’t like that bing is what duckduckgo is. https://www.tomshardware.com/software/search-engines/microsoft-suffering-from-outage-bing-copilot-and-duckduckgo-inaccessible-for-several-hours

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      At best this is as intelligent as saying Google Maps is YouTube by another name because they’re both on Google servers. Even that would be smarter to say actually, because Google Maps and YouTube are owned by the same company.

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        When bing goes down so does duckduckgo but somehow your apples to oranges argument is somehow comparative to you.

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          They share hosting servers, that doesn’t make them the same service. When the power goes out do you think you and your neighbors live in the same house?

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            Just keep sucking down the hype. They don’t share the same hosting for the frontend but they both use the same backend. The backend is of course owned by microsoft. duckduckgo uses bings backend and somehow you have convinced yourself beyond all evidence to the contray that it isn’t bing with a different wrapper.

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              When you can’t pay Stardew Valley (because Steam is down) you also can’t play Eldenring. They must use the same backend and Eldenring is just Stardew Valley by another name.

              You’re going to need a better source than “they go down at the same time”.

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                You are not getting it. Its a documented fact that duckduckgo uses bing search. You keep coming up with these other poor examples when its acknowledged by duckduckgo that they use bing. Of course they say they are more than bing but in the end that is just hype. This probably wont convince you since you are not looking for answers

                https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/bing-outage-shows-just-how-little-competition-google-search-really-has/

                This is because the company uses Microsoft’s Bing to power its search results.

                From this article https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/duckduckgo-what-to-know-about-google-searchs-privacy-focused-rival/

                https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2019/11/19/who-uses-bing-anyway Look at number 5.

                Of course all these sources could be wrong and its just you who is right. Right?

                Laters

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                  You act like this is some secret they keep, they literally tell you on their website that Bing is one of their sources: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/

                  You’ve exposed nothing. I don’t care how they source it, I care how they deliver it.

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                    No I don’t I’m just aware. Its not one of their sources it is their source. I frankly don’t understand why you have such a issue with this fact.
                    Goodbye.

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