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by Aditya_Garg 2799 days ago
DuckDuckGo is not it's own search engine. It's an aggregator of other search engines (mostly Bing).
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jlarocco 2799 days ago
I can't believe can't even do the tiniest bit of research.

DDG isn't an aggregator, and it doesn't use Bing any more than it uses Google, Wikipedia, StackOverflow or anything else.

https://duck.co/forum/thread/4350/did-you-know-that-duckduck...

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LeoPanthera 2798 days ago
And yet their own documentation says that their "normal" search results come from Oath (Yahoo) and... Bing:

https://duck.co/help/results/sources

The other sources are only for their "instant answers" that appear at the top.

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Aditya_Garg 2798 days ago
From what Ive read, DDG uses Bing's API to populate its search results.

https://www.quora.com/How-is-the-Bing-API-used-by-DuckDuckGo

I was just trying to point out that Apple is unlikely to buy a search engine that relies on another competitor's product.

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