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According to https://duck.co/help/results/yahoo-technical-implementation https://duck.co/help/results/yahoo-technical-implementation they are using duckduckgo-o
by JimWestergren 10y ago
According to https://duck.co/help/results/yahoo-technical-implementation https://duck.co/help/results/yahoo-technical-implementation they are using duckduckgo-owned-server.yahoo.net to make these calls.
That subdomain seems to have a CNAME to results.duckduckgo.com which in turn has a CNAME to duckduckgo.com. Could they not have used yahoo.duckduckgo.com instead?
Yahoo owns and controls the DNS of yahoo.net - the DNS settings for duckduckgo-owned-server.yahoo.net could be changed anytime by Yahoo - is that correct?
- breakingcups 10y agoIt says in the post that "To get access to the most relevant Yahoo technology, due to contractual obligations that call has to be associated with a Yahoo domain, in this case, duckduckgo-owned-server.yahoo.net." I'm curious about these contractual obligations. It seems Yahoo is making a lot of effort to ensure compatibility with DDG and its users, why insist on a trivial hostname matter?
- JimWestergren 10y agoOk, I see. Yes, trivial for Yahoo but a hassle for DDG that now has to deal with adblocking scripts, explaining and so forth. Strange.
- qwertex 10y agoIs it possible that yahoo can detect how many users are using there service though this reqest?