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by untog 2661 days ago
No:

> DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from a variety of partners, including Oath (formerly Yahoo) and Bing.

https://duck.co/help/results/sources
2 comments
Kiro 2661 days ago
No? Your quote basically confirms it. All organic search results are from Oath and Bing. The other 400 sources are just for fluff like widgets.
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bad_user 2661 days ago
It's worse.

AFAIK Oath / Yahoo has switched to using Bing under the hood since 2009: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/technology/companies/30so...

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amyjess 2661 days ago
Huh, the last time I tried DDG back in 2014 or so, all the search results came from Yandex, which really put me off of it.
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FabHK 2660 days ago
Having said that, Bing is no replacement for DDG.
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_bxg1 2660 days ago
How does that work with their privacy stance? Do Yahoo/Bing get to keep and use that search data and it's just anonymized, or does DDG pay to keep it untracked?

Kind of disheartening regardless. I assumed they had their own scrappy, independent tech stack.

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londons_explore 2660 days ago
Creating your own search engine in today's world is pretty much impossible.

For one thing, loads of sites load all their content via Ajax, so at a minimum you're gonna need a browser engine as the base of your crawler...

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_bxg1 2660 days ago
Headless Chrome is available and widely-used, and commonly you can get around the JS thing by simply waiting a few seconds before scraping. I'd assume the crawling itself isn't the hard part (aside from maybe just the raw compute time it takes).
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