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by gowld 850 days ago
DDG is powered by Bing plus other APIs and their own crawler.

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

> To deliver Instant Answers on specific topics, DuckDuckGo leverages many sources, including specialized sources like Sportradar and crowd-sourced sites like Wikipedia.

> We also maintain our own crawler (DuckDuckBot) and many indexes to support our results.

> we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing.
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lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 849 days ago
I was responding to someone who said DDG is “just a proxy for Bing”. Not that the things in on that page aren’t true but I fail to see how that makes it a proxy; “proxy” suggests that the query actually goes through Bing servers. Sourcing from a service is not the same as proxying through it.
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