I noticed this for a longer time but I just thought MSN flooded the web with its shit. It didn’t came to my mind it is actually duckduckgo trying to shove these msn links into my face…
I guess this is similar to google amp links, just stealing the content of other websites.
It annoys me big time, -msn doesn’t seem to help
- Looks like there various news agencies and there was a bug dieting the msn icon. The publisher names are all different.
- WaPo, “metaphor”? No child, try again.
DDG uses Bing. What did you expect?
Switch to Kagi. It’s worth the money.
Seconded. The only reason I use Google is if I actually want an ad served to me.
Do you really want your porn search results linked to your credit card + name? oO
I mean, the ad services plugged into every website have already cross referenced each other and know who you are even if you use a service like DDG that supposedly doesn’t track. Incidentally, Kagi supposedly doesn’t track either, (which they’d better not since you’re paying them), so while it doesn’t mitigate the above issue of your being traceable by pure virtue of browsing the web, it certainly isn’t “tying your porn results to credit cards and search results.”
I don’t use any services that make me identifiable to search engines, I use ublock origin, I occasionally delete all my browsing history + cookies, and of course I’d never watch porn winkwink I’d say any corporation/entity outside the ISP would at the very least have a hard time tracking my porn preferences ;)
Not saying this doesn’t suck, but it is also a soft paywall dodge for sites like WaPo.
This is weird. The links all show other news agencies, and you see the same at the top of the page when you follow the links. Is MSN re-hosting the stories from all these agencies or are the agencies opting in for this?
Nothing like seeing an Associated Press link and having it open on msn.com!! 🤡
It’s a syndication partnership with MSN. Publishers provide their articles to MSN via RSS. It’s increasingly difficult to draw traffic to independent sites, so publishers are all seeking to diversify their traffic sources.
here when i search for something or someone ‘newsworthy’ i get links to other sites ahead of msn, those links do go to the expected sites, and the favicons (that are all msn in the posted image) are also correct. in fact, only one first page out of the five searches i tried even had an msn link at all–at #9.
Duck Duck Go uses Bing so that tracks.
i’ve been using Qwant when i search news
Its like Google’s amp links, it is for for the ad tracking purposes
This is the answer. Might be a (new?) part of their agreement
I still like DDG and recommend it. But I also recently switched to Kagi, a paid search engine, and have been quite happy.
Kagi seems kind of expensive. $5 a month is pretty high compared to the costs of other subscriptions and that doesn’t even get you unlimited searches. I am definitely interested in this idea but I can’t see the value being there at the prices offered.
DDG has been hot garbage for a while since Bing jacked up their prices.
Search something on duckduckgo and then refresh, it will list a different order of results. Very annoying if you check multiple links to not know which ones were in what order.
That’s by design
To what end?
I’m fairly sure So you can’t just game the SEO to always be on top. This way you get more varied spurces for your search. Since people will almost always click the top or second top link.
They should do a better job of pointing it out at the least
SAME!
Ok what the fuck is happening with DuckDuckGo?
I’ve been using it since the beginning of last year, because fuck google, and it’s been steadily degrading in usefulness.
None of those sources are MSN.com
Look at the small logo left to the name of the news agency. All links refer to msn.com.
Try searxng
I searched “Trump” and switched to the news tab on DDG and get a variety of sources.
MSN isn’t even in the top 20 for me.
In eastern US, first time using DDG on this device, it shows normal links (searched “Ukraine drone attack”)
DDG targets users based on browser fingerprints.
You must have previously clicked on MSN links
I mean this post is up for more than a day, you could have read some of the other explanations, as yours is pretty poor
Aren’t they sourcing the search results from Bing?
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