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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
by 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 agoThey 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 agoIt 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.