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[-] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 95 points 1 month ago
[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 56 points 1 month ago

For now.

DDG gets search results from Bing, owned by Microsoft. And I wouldn't be surprised if the later did the same as Google did.

[-] QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's technically true, but it's as misleading as saying they get their search results from Yandex. Their results are aggregated from several search engines, not just Bing. They also have their own web crawler, DuckDuckBot, which absolutely respects RobotRules.

Edit: I'm told my information is out of date. No more Yandex because of Uncle Sam. Yahoo is just Bing now, so that index doesn't count anymore. The bulk of the rest of their sources are largely inconsequential specialized search engines. Their sources page states that they "largely source from Bing".

[-] ColinHayhurst@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Where is your evidence for that? It used to be Bing and Yandex, but now it's just Bing. They use other non search engine APIs and do a small amount of crawling AFAIK. Details of who uses what here: https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/

[-] QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

I read it on their sources page at some point, but it looks like that page has changed since last I looked.

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