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by cigaser 1887 days ago
It is using Bing engine and data.
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magnusmundus 1887 days ago
...among other sources. "Over four hundred" [1] of them.

[1] https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/

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Seirdy 1887 days ago
Those apply only to non-organic results (instant answers, zero-click info). Organic results are proxied from Bing (or sometimes Yandex) verbatim.

DuckDuckGo's crawlers only fetch icons and scrape data for some of their instant answers.

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skinnymuch 1883 days ago
They aren’t really used for the actual index. Bing represents 95% of their actual index.
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anoonmoose 1887 days ago
That would make it even funnier!
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cigaser 1887 days ago
It is not a joke. There is a partnership with Microsoft. Search engines are hard.
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kortilla 1887 days ago
Whoosh. The joke is that Google owns DDG despite it being backed by Bing.
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