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DuckDuckGo doesn't crawl/index by itself--it partners with other companies to use their search indexing. Bing is one of their primary sources of indexing, actu
by eatmyshorts 10y ago
DuckDuckGo doesn't crawl/index by itself--it partners with other companies to use their search indexing. Bing is one of their primary sources of indexing, actually, although Wikipedia tells me that DDG's indexing is a compilation of "about 50 sources".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo
- mrweasel 10y agoDuckDuckGo do have their own crawler: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot, but they are dependent on the indexes of others.
- Vinnl 10y agoYeah but neither do some of the other mentioned search engines. Apparently DDG just is even smaller than I thought.
- smarx007 10y agoAhrefs crawls actually more than any search engine other than Google: https://www.incapsula.com/blog/most-active-good-bots.html https://www.incapsula.com/blog/most-active-good-bots.html And Bing, Yandex, and Yahoo have active crawlers.
- bogomipz 10y agoInteresting, I had no idea. I wonder if they have or ever had plans to index themselves? The wiki link mentions they have do their own crawler.