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tbh if we want some competition to google we should support bing


The big reasons people seem to be looking for alternatives are privacy concerns and increasingly aggressive optimization for NLP. DDG and Bing both have ~1% market share and both return decent results - why support the one that will ostensibly become Google II if given the opportunity?


Depends what kind of competition you're looking for. If we want competition for PC software, we should support anything but Bing.


DDG already pays Bing for use of their API though?


DDG relies heavily on Bing, I think




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