[fluffycat]

I think Bing engineers laugh uncontrollably when people at HN claims DuckDuckGo is a search engine.

[ajhurliman]

Seems like they're doing fine https://duckduckgo.com/traffic

[lawrenceyan]

No, the reason OP made that comment is because duckduckgo uses Bing by default to power its search. So duckduckgo is literally just Bing with a duck taped over it basically.

[ajhurliman]

Oh, I didn't know, thanks for that

[fluffycat]

Exactly.