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by ilaksh 2602 days ago
Doesn't duckduckgo use Bing on the back end?
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avhon1 2602 days ago
DuckDuckGo has their own crawler (DuckDuckBot), and they also serve modified results from other search engines (including Bing and Yandex).

https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...

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kinkrtyavimoodh 2601 days ago
This keeps getting said, but the 500 or so 'sources' they mention are at best a distraction. The vast majority of the compute and storage needed to maintain a global index comes directly from Bing and Yandex. DDG is nothing more than a middleman.
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