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by bubble_talk 2509 days ago
I cannot explain it, hopefully someone from DDG actually chimes in :-) If they just use the Bing API, how can their results be better than Bing? I suppose they also use other sources.
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https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so... says "a variety of partners, including Oath (formerly Yahoo) and Bing."
I'm also seeing crawls from duckduckgobot so they're working on their own system at the moment. It may already be deployed for some easy queries.
I find their results are usually as crap as Bing, especially when you use a localized version. That's why I use StartPage (uses Google).