It’s impressive how duckduckgo manages to be so much better than bing despite being a frontend for bing

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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    3 months ago

    It conveys “I have such a disdain for that thing that I’m asterisking its name like it was a slur or swear word”.

    I’m not a big fan either, even if you can find some secondary roles for that (as keeping someone from finding it, like ilinamorato exemplified). It distracts the reader from what is being said to the author’s personal opinion about what is being said.