Re: new search engine
Jude DaShiell <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
If you read the [email protected] list you'll see the messages about this on that email list. I was as surprised as you when I came across those messages myself. duckduckgo has been on tv regularly with advertising regularly and that costs big money to do that. With Microsoft dollars behind an advertising campaign things like this are easy. On Sat, 19 Mar 2022, Luke, Shellworld Support wrote: > On Sat, 19 Mar 2022, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > If what I've read is correct, duckduckgo got bought out by Microsoft so > > it's now a bing extension. > > That's a nice bomb to drop without any attribution. > > "I don't know if it's true, but I heard...", has unjustly ruined many a > reputation. > > Last year, the rumor was Google. I guess this year it's Microsoft. > > https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/ > https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/ads-by-microsoft-on-duckduckgo-private-search/ > > Luke > >