11111one11111@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days 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-square14linkfedilinkarrow-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 · 6 days agomessage-square14linkfedilink
minus-squarevillage604@adultswim.fanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·6 days agoDDG uses Bing on the back end for the most part. They don’t maintain an index.
minus-squareCameronDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 days 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-down9·6 days agoDo you work for them?
minus-squarevillage604@adultswim.fanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·5 days agoI’m not sure why my comment would make you think I’m an employee.
minus-squareone_old_coder@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·5 days agoHow can you claim that “DDG is just using Bings index” then?
minus-squarerandombullet@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·5 days 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-up2·5 days 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