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Results in Duckduckgo have changed? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm finding the results are not helpful as they used to be and sometimes way past the topic I'm searching. This is very prevalent when I'm searching for pirate sites. I'm falling back to Searxng whenever this occurs.

Has anyone noticed it too? Has DDG upped their moderation?

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I also noticed redoing a search sometimes yields different results despite using the exact same keywords.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

I also noticed a change. From one day to the next I suddenly got lots of reddit links in the top results

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Which search engine is good to find pirate sites and other general websites

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

The search engine built into qbittorrent is good as well.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago

They don't show up there for obvious reasons. Also sites disappear frequently, or move to new domains. You have to use alternative ways, bookmark megathreads and other collections where some other people frequently update the links, something for start:

On lemmy: [email protected] read the sidebar
https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/
On github: https://github.com/Shakil-Shahadat/awesome-piracy
Some good links are here as well: https://fmhy.net/

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 weeks ago

duck duck go is showes Bing results. maybe Microsoft is doing somthing.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

DuckDuckGo is just a bing proxy. I think Microsoft is working on optimizing it for their copilot thing.

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