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This is so wrong it's laughable. Please provide proof if this ridiculousness.

• nxc18 9y ago
  https://web.archive.org/web/20150124074006/https://duck.co/help/results/sources https://web.archive.org/web/20150124074006/https://duck.co/h... “Just a wrapper” is misleading, but DDG returns bing results at least some of the time.
• lugg 9y ago
  I suspect they're referring to the fact that it is? (Well, Bing and 400+ other engines) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo https://web.archive.org/web/20150124074006/https://duck.co/help/results/sources https://web.archive.org/web/20150124074006/https://duck.co/h... https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2017/08/15/bing_microsoft_duckduckgo_outage/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2017/08/15/bing_microsoft_...
  • bduerst 9y ago
    From what I understand, it's mostly Bing + Yandex (for Russian pages) these days - the additional sources are websites that submit their own custom indexing of their pages.
    • lugg 9y ago
      I suspect the nature of things just leads to that even if they have multiple big upstreams. If bing offers up the best results most of the time DDG will, as a result, offer up bing results most of the time. "Best results" easily determinable even with DDG privacy constraints. They're definitely doing some cool stuff at DDG and its certainly a hell of a lot more than "a wrapper around bing." I just don't think expanding their own index infrastructure is something feasible for them right now.
      • bduerst 9y ago
        Sure, but I don't think it's fair to compare DDG to other search engines that crawl and index the entire web themselves. It's a different user experience for sure but the indexing is (for the most part) the same as Bing.