I noticed this for a longer time but I just thought MSN flooded the web with its shit. It didn’t came to my mind it is actually duckduckgo trying to shove these msn links into my face…
I guess this is similar to google amp links, just stealing the content of other websites.
It annoys me big time, -msn doesn’t seem to help
Duck Duck Go uses Bing so that tracks.
This is the answer. Might be a (new?) part of their agreement
I still like DDG and recommend it. But I also recently switched to Kagi, a paid search engine, and have been quite happy.
Kagi seems kind of expensive. $5 a month is pretty high compared to the costs of other subscriptions and that doesn’t even get you unlimited searches. I am definitely interested in this idea but I can’t see the value being there at the prices offered.
If it was $1 I’d probably subscribe in a heartbeat because it’d be affordable in my country. $5 is not bad but it adds up quickly.
Search something on duckduckgo and then refresh, it will list a different order of results. Very annoying if you check multiple links to not know which ones were in what order.
That’s by design
To what end?
I’m fairly sure So you can’t just game the SEO to always be on top. This way you get more varied spurces for your search. Since people will almost always click the top or second top link.
They should do a better job of pointing it out at the least
DDG has been hot garbage for a while since Bing jacked up their prices.
i’ve been using Qwant when i search news
Its like Google’s amp links, it is for for the ad tracking purposes
Aren’t they sourcing the search results from Bing?
DDG uses Bing. What did you expect?
DDG is going to shit anyway. Feels like bing 2.0 at this point. The results aren’t what they used to be. I’ve been getting better results from my searxng instance or using like startpage.
This is weird. The links all show other news agencies, and you see the same at the top of the page when you follow the links. Is MSN re-hosting the stories from all these agencies or are the agencies opting in for this?
Nothing like seeing an Associated Press link and having it open on msn.com!! 🤡
It’s a syndication partnership with MSN. Publishers provide their articles to MSN via RSS. It’s increasingly difficult to draw traffic to independent sites, so publishers are all seeking to diversify their traffic sources.
Seconded! And unlike DDG (based in the US), Qwant is in the EU
What about searxng?
I’ve been hearing more about it and you can apparently even self host it.
Searxng is nice, but every now and again, it won’t load results until I refresh the page. I need to mess with it again, but haven’t considered needing it.
Would be nice if it had a built in calculator and unit converter, that’s a ddg feature I use a lot
I remember when they switched map links to (ew) Apple Maps. That was a huge downer.
Absolutely! Especially because the map is always broken on my phone, I want to move the area and end up somewhere hundreds of kilometers away. I guess it’s time for a new search engine…
It is probably the most polished map. I would rather use something open source, but it makes sense why they switched.
Duckduckgo is absolute shit. I’m tired of seeing blogspam AI shit. I’m tired of searching for things like “Trump tariffs 2017” and seeing 50,000 articles about what Trump said yesterday. Search engines are shit. It hurts I had to use Google AI for info on “articulation in architecture” because everything else was useless.
Unless we figure out how to open source, distribute and maintain an indexer, we’re going to suck on the AI tit for the foreseeable future.
All these meta search engines are eventually doomed to be shut down is the tech companies that maintain the handful of actual indexers that exist slowly shut down streams that don’t provide them revenue.
Duck Duck Go was never really good at showing results in my experience. Currently using Ecosia and switching between the Googl and Bing index. I hope they get their own index soon
Ecosia is in partnership with Qwant developing a EU based indexer. Quite excited myself.
Not saying this doesn’t suck, but it is also a soft paywall dodge for sites like WaPo.
How are you guys getting all the hits from MSN exclusively? I’ve tried insistently and I get an assortment of El Confidencial, CNN, Sky News and then maybe some MSN. Heck, I’m getting Yahoo before MSN.
It seems to depend on the country, if I set US or Germany I get the MSN results, if I set Spain I set none…
Ok what the fuck is happening with DuckDuckGo?
I’ve been using it since the beginning of last year, because fuck google, and it’s been steadily degrading in usefulness.
Microsoft
Not sure why you’re getting those. None of mine are msn icons.
In eastern US, first time using DDG on this device, it shows normal links (searched “Ukraine drone attack”)
so I get results from all the major news outlets but many have bing icons on them lolwtf
