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

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    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.

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      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.

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        If it was $1 I’d probably subscribe in a heartbeat because it’d be affordable in my country. $5 is not bad but it adds up quickly.

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      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.

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            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.

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          They should do a better job of pointing it out at the least

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      DDG has been hot garbage for a while since Bing jacked up their prices.