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No, they use their own crawler for quite some time already. Spiced up with bing results, if I recall it correctly.

by sveme 9y ago

Kiro 9y ago
Source?
- tyingq 9y ago
  From 2015, but the answer is from a DDG employee: https://www.quora.com/What-search-algorithm-does-DuckDuckGo-run-in-order-to-search-Is-it-similar-to-PageRank https://www.quora.com/What-search-algorithm-does-DuckDuckGo-... Older still (2013), but more detail: http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/1/28/duckduckgo-architecture-1-million-deep-searches-a-day-and-gr.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/1/28/duckduckgo-archite...
  - Kiro 9y ago
    Thanks. I would like to see numbers on how many of the search results actually come from their own crawler though. I may be wrong but it feels like most of them come from Bing or Yahoo.
    - bigbugbag 9y ago
      and yandex. https://duck.co/help/results/sources https://duck.co/help/results/sources
bobajeff 9y ago
I'm pretty sure Bing still makes up a large portion of their results. I remember reading some official stats at some point that their own crawler was such a miniscule part of the results that in effect you were just basically using a more limited version of Bing.
- bigbugbag 9y ago
  I've been using duckduckgo for several years and unless Bing had radically changed in recent times, I would consider Bing to be the more limited of the two. I wanted to look up a translation and tried !wr word on bing and it did not load the wordreference.com page for word I wanted to find a pizza for tonight and I'm not familiar with my current location, so I typed pizza near me in bing and it returned results for pizza chain store in US, Canada and India while I'm in western Europe. Same search in duckduckgo gives me an openstreetmap based map centered on my location with addresses of places to get pizza and yelp reviews. I could go on for a while with other examples showing that duckduckgo is definitely not a limited version of Bing.

No, they use their own crawler for quite some time already. Spiced up with bing results, if I recall it correctly.

by sveme 9y ago

No, they use their own crawler for quite some time already. Spiced up with bing results, if I recall it correctly.

Kiro 9y ago

Source?

tyingq 9y ago
From 2015, but the answer is from a DDG employee: https://www.quora.com/What-search-algorithm-does-DuckDuckGo-run-in-order-to-search-Is-it-similar-to-PageRank https://www.quora.com/What-search-algorithm-does-DuckDuckGo-... Older still (2013), but more detail: http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/1/28/duckduckgo-architecture-1-million-deep-searches-a-day-and-gr.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/1/28/duckduckgo-archite...
- Kiro 9y ago
  Thanks. I would like to see numbers on how many of the search results actually come from their own crawler though. I may be wrong but it feels like most of them come from Bing or Yahoo.
  - bigbugbag 9y ago
    and yandex. https://duck.co/help/results/sources https://duck.co/help/results/sources

bobajeff 9y ago

I'm pretty sure Bing still makes up a large portion of their results. I remember reading some official stats at some point that their own crawler was such a miniscule part of the results that in effect you were just basically using a more limited version of Bing.

bigbugbag 9y ago
I've been using duckduckgo for several years and unless Bing had radically changed in recent times, I would consider Bing to be the more limited of the two. I wanted to look up a translation and tried !wr word on bing and it did not load the wordreference.com page for word I wanted to find a pizza for tonight and I'm not familiar with my current location, so I typed pizza near me in bing and it returned results for pizza chain store in US, Canada and India while I'm in western Europe. Same search in duckduckgo gives me an openstreetmap based map centered on my location with addresses of places to get pizza and yelp reviews. I could go on for a while with other examples showing that duckduckgo is definitely not a limited version of Bing.