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Chris Mills<a href="https://aus.social/@noodle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@noodle</a> thank you for this timely reminder. I have set my phone’s preferred <a href="https://cloudisland.nz/tags/SearchEngine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SearchEngine</a> to <a href="https://cloudisland.nz/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DuckDuckGo</a> in an attempt to reduce my dealings with <a href="https://cloudisland.nz/tags/AISlop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AISlop</a> - Cheers!

CeluhelpTráfico de Google vs Otros Buscadores vs ChatBots <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Google</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Yandex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Yandex</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Yahoo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Yahoo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DuckDuckGo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Naver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Naver</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Baidu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Baidu</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ecosia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ecosia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Brave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Brave</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AOL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Deepseek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Deepseek</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gemini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gemini</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Perplexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Perplexity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Claude" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Claude</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Copilot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Copilot</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Blackbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blackbox</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MetaAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MetaAI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Monica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monica</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Grok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Grok</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://federate.social/@mattblaze" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mattblaze</a> and that's why anyone who even mentions <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> gets kicked off premises by me.<ul><li>Cuz people on <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LSD</a> are way more respectful, less nosy and quieter than all the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a> bs that is just <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WastefulComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WastefulComputing</a> and that are worse than <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Cleverbot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cleverbot</a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DuckDuckGo</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/InstantAnswers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InstantAnswers</a> combined)...</li></ul>

thomas bohnalways when I search for something on <a href="https://norden.social/tags/duckduckgo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#duckduckgo</a> the second page is in chinese

readbeanicecream<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PSA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@Mojeek" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Mojeek</a> search results appear to be improving. <a href="https://www.mojeek.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mojeek.com/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/searchengine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#searchengine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#search</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/searchresults" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#searchresults</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/degoogle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#degoogle</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mojeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mojeek</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#google</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/duckduckgo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#duckduckgo</a>

John LeonardMicrosoft has announced it is to retire access to its Bing Search APIs for must users on 11th August.Comment from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DuckDuckGo</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/@brave" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@brave</a> <a href="https://suma-ev.social/@MetaGer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@MetaGer</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/@Mojeek" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Mojeek</a> on Microsoft’s sudden move<a href="https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/microsoft-s-plan-to-retire-bing-api-access-and-what-it-means-for-web-search" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/microsoft-s-plan-to-retire-bing-api-access-and-what-it-means-for-web-search</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#technews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microsoft</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#search</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ai</a>

Radio Azureus<a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@duncan_bayne" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@duncan_bayne</a> I use duckduckgo to get results when that occurs.Amazon is the only website I visit where my browser tabs get hammered with bad code that crash them repeatedly in one session<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#enshittification</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Amazon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#search</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/duckDuckGO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#duckDuckGO</a>

HarleyIf you are not using <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DuckDuckGo</a>, you are not real :duckduckgo:

James House-Lantto (He/Him)<a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/667517/microsoft-bing-search-api-end-of-support-ai-replacement" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theverge.com/news/667517/microsoft-bing-search-api-end-of-support-ai-replacement</a>Microsoft will shut down access to its Bing Search APIs for most third-party developers on August 11th, decommissioning all existing instances. However, some major users like DuckDuckGo will continue to have access after the cutoff, according to Wired.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Microsoft</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Search</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DuckDuckGo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DDG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DDG</a>

Scott WilsonAdditional coverage: <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/bing-microsoft-api-support-ending/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wired.com/story/bing-microsoft-api-support-ending/</a><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DuckDuckGo</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#search</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/bing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bing</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microsoft</a>

Scott WilsonInteresting… The article states that <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DuckDuckGo</a> and others who use Bing search results will not be affected. “Microsoft Cuts Off Access To Bing Search Data as It Shifts Focus To Chatbots”<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#search</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/bing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bing</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microsoft</a> <a href="https://m.slashdot.org/story/442069" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://m.slashdot.org/story/442069</a>

jablkoziemne<a href="https://schleuss.online/@itnewsbot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@itnewsbot</a> wasnt <a href="https://101010.pl/tags/duckduckgo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#duckduckgo</a> usign <a href="https://101010.pl/tags/bing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bing</a>?

Marcus AdamsThe first thing that comes to mind is <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DuckDuckGo</a>. I know that while they do have their own index, they rely largely on Bing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#search</a> results. They'll either need to expand their first party indexer, or partner with somebody like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Brave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Brave</a> search.Headline: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Microsoft</a> pulls plug on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bing</a> Search APIsSnippet: Microsoft mentioned that any existing instances of Bing Search APIs will be decommissioned completely, and the API will no longer be available for usage.Source: <a href="https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-pulls-plug-on-bing-search-apis/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-pulls-plug-on-bing-search-apis/</a>

Shaula Walko<a href="https://cultur.social/@marcorehmer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@marcorehmer</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/@Catvalente" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Catvalente</a> 💯 I use <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ecosia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ecosia</a> on my desktop and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DuckDuckGo</a> on my phone. Love them both.

Mr Lawrence 🇷🇼I’m slowly backing out of US supplied software. I’ve changed my browser to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Vivaldi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vivaldi</a> (though I’m keeping <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DuckDuckGo</a> as my Search provider for now). I’m downloading my photo albums from <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Google</a> for local backup and thinking about alternative phone backup strategies. I’ve been playing with TeraBox but something feels off with it. Anyone had good experiences with another un-American cloud photo backup service?EDIT: Thanks you lovely people! Some seriously good ideas came back from that!

Der Brüsseler 🇪🇺Ich suche weiterhin eine alternative <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Suchmaschine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Suchmaschine</a> zu <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Google</a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Bing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bing</a> und <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DuckDuckGo</a>. Und ja, ich versuche es immer wieder mit <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Qwant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Qwant</a>, aber wirklich überzeugt hat mich Qwant leider auch nicht.

MichelDer <a href="https://norden.social/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DuckDuckGo</a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/Browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Browser</a> etabliert sich immer mehr zu meinem Lieblingsbrowser, vor Allem wegen dem <a href="https://norden.social/tags/YT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#YT</a> Player der die <a href="https://norden.social/tags/Werbung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Werbung</a> ausfiltert 🙂

Feike<a href="https://chaos.social/@bitsoffreedom" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bitsoffreedom</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/@volkskrant" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@volkskrant</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/@NunlRSS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@NunlRSS</a> <a href="https://social.ftm.nl/@FTM_nl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@FTM_nl</a> als ik mijn duckduckgo app-trackingsrapportjes bekijk, dan zie je DPG media daar ook soms tussen staan. 'Tis niet zó erg als Google analytica of Smoelenboek (Meta) <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Duckduckgo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Duckduckgo</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/AppTracking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AppTracking</a>

Miguel TorrellasThese are the services and apps I use to avoid GAFAM (<a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Google</a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Amazon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Apple</a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Microsoft</a>) I <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/DeGoogled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeGoogled</a> years ago and don't miss it though still use Youtube. No Google Services on my phoneNot completely open source neither de-Americanized 🇪🇺 Give it a try! There are other alternatives just as good!<a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/protonmail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#protonmail</a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/signalapp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#signalapp</a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/duckduckgo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#duckduckgo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/grapheneos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grapheneos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/reddit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reddit</a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/x" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#x</a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#google</a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mastodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/lemmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lemmy</a>

JanHeutiger <a href="https://muenchen.social/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DuckDuckGo</a>-Fund: Die <a href="https://muenchen.social/tags/noAfD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#noAfD</a> hostet freundlicherweise einen öffentlichen Mirror des Verfassungsschutzgutachten über die AfD von 2019, eine PDF-Version von <a href="https://netzpolitik.org/2019/wir-veroeffentlichen-das-verfassungsschutz-gutachten-zur-afd/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://netzpolitik.org/2019/wir-veroeffentlichen-das-verfassungsschutz-gutachten-zur-afd/</a> auf ihrer Heimatseite <a href="https://www.afd.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/BfV-Gutachten_%C3%BCber_die_AfD.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.afd.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/BfV-Gutachten_%C3%BCber_die_AfD.pdf</a> Gibt zwar inzwischen mehrere Updates, aber ist doch irgendwie nett von den gesichert Rechtsextremen.

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