Google’s claim that search users have choice is “bogus,” Microsoft CEO tells judge

Technology@lemmy.world – 260 points – 1 years ago

Google’s claim that search users have choice is “bogus,” Microsoft CEO tells judge::Google's search dominance creates "vicious cycle," Satya Nadella testified.

You are viewing a single comment

View all comments Show the parent comment

There are really only two search engines. Its either Google or Bing. The others exist, but they use Google's and/or Bing's search results.

since when uses ddg google or bing ?

DDG is Bing by proxy, has been for ages. A while back they had a controversy for having microsoft trackers or something like that, and mentioned it was some stipulation for using Bing results. But they still backed off on that anyway.

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.

Source: Wikipedia

So it's definitely not a "proxy to Bing" but it does use data from Bing.

2 more...