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Search engines compared (lemmy.basedcount.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (7 children)

DuckDuckGo's results are a compilation of "over 400" sources according to itself, including Bing, Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Yandex, and its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot); but none from Google. It also uses data from crowdsourced sites such as Wikipedia, to populate knowledge panel boxes to the right of the search results.

(Wikipedia)

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Hence, not a search engine. Fucking downvoting clowns.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Hang on, I'm really trying to understand.

According to Wikpedia,

A Web crawler, sometimes called a spider or spiderbot and often shortened to crawler, is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web and that is typically operated by search engines for the purpose of Web indexing.

DDG operates a crawler just like that which is a characteristic of a search engine.

A search engine is defined by Webster as

computer software used to search data (such as text or a database) for specified information also : a site on the World Wide Web that uses such software to locate key words in other sites

Which is what DDG is and does. How is DDG not a search engine?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

On one hand, you've provided sourced information with supporting details, and I've also successfully used DDG as a search engine.

On the other hand, ultratiem on Lemmy says it's not a search engine, so I don't know who to believe...

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