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by giancarlostoro 3081 days ago
DuckDuckGo does advertise but based on current search never on tracking you. Aka highly relevant ads to you now vs 3 months from now.
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bduerst 3081 days ago
DDG is a just a re-skin of Bing search. They don't do indexing.
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giancarlostoro 3081 days ago
They don't just use bing is my understanding. Unless that's changed?
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bduerst 3081 days ago
They also use Yandex, which isn't very relevant unless your website is in Russian, and allow websites to manually set up their pages for instant answers.
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Whitestrake 3081 days ago
This was my understanding too. Their Sources page[1] indicates that they run a crawler called DuckDuckBot (implying some indexing takes place), and have community maintained/crowd-sourced data as well.

[1] https://duck.co/help/results/sources

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bduerst 3081 days ago
Those are mostly DDG's instant answers, if I'm not mistaken, where websites use the SDK to submit their data to be crawled.

DDG doesn't have webmaster tools or crawls domains natively.

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