cross: https://lemmy.ml/post/233095

Article is in Italian.

Famous privacy blog Le Alternative (!lealternative@lemmy.ml here on Lemmy) was de-indexed from Bing and from all Bing-dependent search engines, including DuckDuckGo. At the moment it is impossible to search for their useful articles and the reason for this de-indexing is unknown. The owner of the blog is still trying to find out the reason for this removal.

    • @whititobebeOP
      3•2 years ago

      Definitely is… The only thing that keeps me going back to DDG is bangs, would love to see this implemented in Searx instances 🙄

        • @whititobebeOP
          3•2 years ago

          Great, Thanks! Will try it then 😁 It even supports DDG’s ones!

          • noodlejetski
            1•2 years ago

            It even supports DDG’s ones!

            not really, they just have a few that look similar to DDG’s. for example, the link above shows !wp as a Wikipedia bang, and while it works, DDG’s !w doesn’t.

            • @whititobebeOP
              2•2 years ago

              My source was this paragraph, I don’t know if they are all from DDG, but I tried and some are the same:

              !! external bangs

              SearXNG supports the external bangs from ddg. To directly jump to a external search page use the !! prefix. To give an example:

              search wikipedia by a custom language

                !!wfr Wau Holland

              Please note, your search will be performed directly in the external search engine, SearXNG cannot protect your privacy on this.