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> Well, no, they don't even have their own search engine. Really? I've never heard this, do you have anymore information about it?

jmathai 10y ago
It's sort of a meta search engine that utilizes other search indexes. Here's a post from the founder. https://duck.co/forum/comment/27893 https://duck.co/forum/comment/27893 Edit, that's about 5 years old. The current page on Wikipedia provides a more recent explanation. "DuckDuckGo's results are a compilation of "about 50" sources,[42] including Yahoo! Search BOSS; Wikipedia; Wolfram Alpha; Bing; its own Web crawler, the DuckDuckBot; and others." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo#Overview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo#Overview
- Bedon292 10y ago
  They actually say hundreds of sources now on https://duck.co/help/results/sources https://duck.co/help/results/sources and specifically call out Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex for search results.
- low_battery 10y ago
  It is a meta search engine. Note that they never mention the share breakdown of these "sources". What percentage of queries DDG itself answer? Probably very few.
nickpsecurity 10y ago
Meta-search is a type of search engine that goes way back. They avoid the cost of maintaining a full, search service by sending the query to all kinds of other search engines, running some analysis on their results, and presenting a condensed form to the user optionally with value adds. DuckDuckGo's value add is privacy. Here's some others to give you an idea for what they do: http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/10-meta-search-engines-reviewed-and-compared.html http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/10-meta-search-engine...
- low_battery 10y ago
  Basically DDG is at the mercy of their sources, they can proxy the results for now to the actual search engines, but what happens if lets say Bing and Yandex requires them to pass some extra stuff or cut the query hose otherwise? Will DDG use its own index? Please.. They have no resources to build an actual half decent search engine.
  - nickpsecurity 10y ago
    I agree. Being effective and independent will cost money. There some potential for a company that charges monthly or annually to provide search services to other companies with privacy. There's lots of search, like marketing or competitive intelligence, where companies would prefer that the terms don't go through a surveillance company. Initial results might do as DuckDuckGo is doing now with them incrementally building their own database as funds came in. Not sure how marketable it is, though. Google is pretty dominant. Most companies already running their stuff through it.
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PrivacyGirl 10y ago
I think DuckDuckGo mainly uses Yahoo. There was an article recently that said they've got a major new partnership with Yahoo and now use mostly the Yahoo search results and advertising. I'll see if I can find it. Here. I just found the link to one of the blogs I follow for search. Looks like DuckDuckGo is increasing its use of Yahoo for a big partnership: http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2016/12/13/duckduckgo-makes-search-enhancements-by-leveraging-yahoo-partnership/ http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2016/12/13/duckduckgo-makes-se...
PrivacyGirl 10y ago
Here is information on a search engine blog I follow about a big relationship upgrade with Yahoo. Maybe this will bring good improvements: http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2016/12/13/duckduckgo-makes-search-enhancements-by-leveraging-yahoo-partnership/ http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2016/12/13/duckduckgo-makes-se...

jmathai 10y ago

It's sort of a meta search engine that utilizes other search indexes. Here's a post from the founder. https://duck.co/forum/comment/27893 https://duck.co/forum/comment/27893 Edit, that's about 5 years old. The current page on Wikipedia provides a more recent explanation. "DuckDuckGo's results are a compilation of "about 50" sources,[42] including Yahoo! Search BOSS; Wikipedia; Wolfram Alpha; Bing; its own Web crawler, the DuckDuckBot; and others." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo#Overview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo#Overview

Bedon292 10y ago
They actually say hundreds of sources now on https://duck.co/help/results/sources https://duck.co/help/results/sources and specifically call out Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex for search results.
low_battery 10y ago
It is a meta search engine. Note that they never mention the share breakdown of these "sources". What percentage of queries DDG itself answer? Probably very few.

nickpsecurity 10y ago

Meta-search is a type of search engine that goes way back. They avoid the cost of maintaining a full, search service by sending the query to all kinds of other search engines, running some analysis on their results, and presenting a condensed form to the user optionally with value adds. DuckDuckGo's value add is privacy. Here's some others to give you an idea for what they do: http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/10-meta-search-engines-reviewed-and-compared.html http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/10-meta-search-engine...

low_battery 10y ago
Basically DDG is at the mercy of their sources, they can proxy the results for now to the actual search engines, but what happens if lets say Bing and Yandex requires them to pass some extra stuff or cut the query hose otherwise? Will DDG use its own index? Please.. They have no resources to build an actual half decent search engine.
- nickpsecurity 10y ago
  I agree. Being effective and independent will cost money. There some potential for a company that charges monthly or annually to provide search services to other companies with privacy. There's lots of search, like marketing or competitive intelligence, where companies would prefer that the terms don't go through a surveillance company. Initial results might do as DuckDuckGo is doing now with them incrementally building their own database as funds came in. Not sure how marketable it is, though. Google is pretty dominant. Most companies already running their stuff through it.

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PrivacyGirl 10y ago

I think DuckDuckGo mainly uses Yahoo. There was an article recently that said they've got a major new partnership with Yahoo and now use mostly the Yahoo search results and advertising. I'll see if I can find it. Here. I just found the link to one of the blogs I follow for search. Looks like DuckDuckGo is increasing its use of Yahoo for a big partnership: http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2016/12/13/duckduckgo-makes-search-enhancements-by-leveraging-yahoo-partnership/ http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2016/12/13/duckduckgo-makes-se...

PrivacyGirl 10y ago

Here is information on a search engine blog I follow about a big relationship upgrade with Yahoo. Maybe this will bring good improvements: http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2016/12/13/duckduckgo-makes-search-enhancements-by-leveraging-yahoo-partnership/ http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2016/12/13/duckduckgo-makes-se...