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DDG is using over 400 sources apparently, of which one is Yahoo https://duck.co/help/results/sources https://duck.co/help/results/sources
by Catalyst4NaN 9y ago
DDG is using over 400 sources apparently, of which one is Yahoo https://duck.co/help/results/sources https://duck.co/help/results/sources
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- afsina 9y agoMost of those sources are search engines of some web pages, answer pages, cheat sheets and help documents. They even list tiny unit conversation services there. Give me a break.
- djsumdog 9y agoThey license both Yahoo and Yandex (Yandex being a massive index based in Russia).
- josinalvo 9y ago> https://duck.co/help/results/sources https://duck.co/help/results/sources "We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we source from Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex." I thought they where re-implementing search.. Are they "just" aggregating?
- bamboozled 9y agoI recently spoke with Gabriel and his view was that they're going to continue to outsource / proxy / aggregate unless they need to implement their own search. Right now it's not worth the investment apparently.
- moduspol 9y agoThat seems reasonable if the goal is privacy, right? I mean, even if they were literally proxying to anonymized Google results, wouldn't that cover the privacy benefit?
- mousa 9y agoIt would make it hard to pretend that the DDG results were much better than those irrelevant Google results that more fanatical Googlephobes insist they get.
- Sargos 9y agoYeah because Search is an actual hard problem and putting up a proxy like DDG is not. DDG will never have any real value beyond that.
- FabHK 9y agoEliminating tracking of your searches is not valuable?
- Sargos 9y agoI said value beyond that. That meaning the privacy proxy.
- bamboozled 9y agoIDK, if it ain't broke don't fix it. Also the system in place for aggregation isn't just Nginx, it actually does things, like bangs.