Re: [Lynx-dev] new search engine

[Karen Lewellen]

Actually, if I follow this thread, Luke is correct.
Duckduckgo is not owned..by anyone but duckduckgo.
Bing is a Microsoft creation.
To discover this, I searched in google actually, the phrase
duckduckgo bought by Microsoft?
Then instead of reading search results I chose the news option.
there are several stories regarding duckduckgo's recent  choice to join 
other  search engines like google and bing, in filtering Russian 
propaganda and  the reaction of duckduckgo users to the choice.
many articles reference bing as a different tool, distinguish it from 
duckduckgo and the like.
The ability to afford ads does not mean the company belongs to another.
karen



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