11111one11111@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoI just used ddg to search for something and the first result was for a page that 404's, how is that possible?message-squaremessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down16
arrow-up15arrow-down1message-squareI just used ddg to search for something and the first result was for a page that 404's, how is that possible?11111one11111@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square13linkfedilink
minus-squarevillage604cakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·2 months agoDDG uses Bing on the back end for the most part. They don’t maintain an index.
minus-squareCameronDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoDDG is just using Bings index, which means DDG still wont know about any changes until Bing reindexes.
minus-squareone_old_coder@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down9·2 months agoDo you work for them?
minus-squarevillage604cakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·2 months agoI’m not sure why my comment would make you think I’m an employee.
minus-squareone_old_coder@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·2 months agoHow can you claim that “DDG is just using Bings index” then?
minus-squarerandombullet@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·2 months agohttps://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing. Because they can look things up?
minus-squareschipelblorp@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoAre those internal documents?? /s
DDG uses Bing on the back end for the most part. They don’t maintain an index.
DDG is just using Bings index, which means DDG still wont know about any changes until Bing reindexes.
Do you work for them?
I’m not sure why my comment would make you think I’m an employee.
How can you claim that “DDG is just using Bings index” then?
https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources
Because they can look things up?
Are those internal documents?? /s