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by adrtessier 3836 days ago
I'm curious: who will they turn to if (when) Yahoo shuts the service down? Bing?
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Their only options are Google, Bing, Yandex, Exalead, Gigablast, and Mojeek, and most probably in that order as the last two need to grow considerably first. Unless there's any others that have their own index?
How is Google an option? They offer no API whatsoever
StartPage uses Google so there must be a way.
They probably scrape Google. Willing to bet there is no deal. Google would never agree to such a thing. Even paying $XXXXX a month isn't worth it to them.
That's what I always thought but according to this they have a contract: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Artic...
and Baidu.
Yeah sorry, I was only counting engines suitable for DDG, ie. English language etc. There's also Qwant and although they are crawling their results still appear to be Bing.
I am not related to Baidu, I just see their crawlers regularly on English language websites. Example search result: http://www.baidu.com/s?rsv_idx=1&wd=duckduckgo&ie=utf-8&sl_l...
Good point! They could definitely be an option then.
Doesn't Yahoo use bing anyway?