Comment by bscphil
2 years ago
> Bing, and thus DDG, has switched to prioritizing local results
From what I can tell this is an issue with the Bing API that DDG uses that the DDG folks have been unable to resolve. I've tried many identical queries between DDG and Bing and while Bing does occasionally return incorrect local results, the completely irrelevant local results that appear on almost every DDG search do not seem to happen with Bing itself.
From what I understand, DDG is aware of the issue. I don't know why it isn't more of a priority.
Long time DDG user (>10 years) here, and it’s astounding to me that they haven’t prioritized making their own independent index to switch off Bing. I would have expected them to do it like 5 years ago, but there’s afaik no initiative to do so. It’s unfortunate and am now trying other engines like Brave search.
I also occasionally try Brave search when a DDG search fails. Sometimes Brave finds what I want, but I frequently get Captcha (and now proof of work) challenges that are quite annoying. I don't get this with any other search provider (though StartPage would frequently do this a while back). I hope this is just a phase, because I would likely use Brave Search more if not for this issue.
Hi, Brave engineer here,
Are you by any chance using a VPN while using Brave Search? (ProtonVPN?)
Thanks for your help, we're working on ways to reduce the number of captchas shown to VPN users and your feedback is very useful.
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