• Sordid@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Maybe get independence from bing.

    The only alternative to dependence on Bing is dependence on Google. Indexing the entirety of the internet is such an expensive project that there are only two companies on the planet that can afford it.

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        1 year ago

        Huh, that’s a relatively new development. It used to just be a reskin of Bing, like DuckDuckGo.

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          It started off using Bing as a fallback if they couldn’t provide enough results from their own index, then they ditched Bing entirely.

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      @Sordid

      Even then, there’s the theory/circumstantial “evidence” that Google’s indexing is a big farce. Forgot where I saw the video, but someone pointed out that the average person only relies on the 1st page or two of search results. To try to go beyond that, most searches very quickly drop from “millions of results” down to a few hundred/thousand at best. Going beyond the first couple of search result pages, the page count seemingly drops off a cliff.

      However, there are independent engines out there. The first one that pops to mind is Gigablast, which does it’s own indexing/crawling.

      If you’ve got some time to kill, check out some stuff related to the “Dead Internet Theory”. While I cant say how accurate the information presented may be, it certainly opens up the idea that there’s something funky about the internet and how we perceive it.