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Thanks for taking the time to look that up. So their bot is only for instant answers, and DDG is really just a metasearch engine? I'm a bit disappointed by tha

by hjek 8y ago

Thanks for taking the time to look that up. So their bot is only for instant answers, and DDG is really just a metasearch engine? I'm a bit disappointed by that. Might as well change to Searx then. It's also "just" a metasearch engine, but at least it's fully free/libre. I wonder if there are any well-established free search engines that do their own crawling?

Kiro 8y ago
I understand it though. Quoted from the old Sources page on DuckDuckGo where they elaborated a bit on more: > Bing and Google each spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year crawling and indexing the deep Web. It costs so much that even big companies like Yahoo and Ask are giving up general crawling and indexing. Therefore, it seems silly to compete on crawling and, besides, we do not have the money to do so. Instead, we've focused on building a better search engine by concentrating on what we think are long-term value-adds -- having way more instant answers, way less spam, real privacy and a better overall search experience.