exador23, 1 month ago

"news" tabbed search for "UN News" gives 29 first page results.

12 of them are MSN scrapes of other news orgs including AFP, CNN, Reuters, LATimes, Bloomberg, AP, etc. and 2 unknown sourced Yahoo articles. That's nearly 50%.

And it's front loaded. Of the 1st 13 hits, 11 are MSN or Yahoo. 84%

ai6yr, 1 month ago

@exador23 Yep, definitely poor quality... also have found that old items sneak in frequently. (ie something posted 10 years ago presented as "new").

exador23, 1 month ago

@ai6yr their 'custom date' interface is very buggy too, which is frustrating. Sometimes you need to cut out the last week or month of results when researching something.

As a related aside, some current event article I posted today had the preview here come up claiming it was from 1969. lol.

ai6yr, 1 month ago

@exador23 DuckDuckGo uses Bing as the underlying search engine. So it points all the news results to MSN.