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They do have their own engine.

by sveme 8y ago

Kiro 8y ago
Not for regular search results. https://duck.co/help/results/sources https://duck.co/help/results/sources
- cpeterso 8y ago
  What is a "regular search result"? Your link says: "DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we source from Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex." I use DDG because I like its !bang searches and I genuinely prefer its Instant Answers and page layout over Google's.
  - Kiro 8y ago
    The last part of your quote is what most people associate search results with.
    - Kiro 8y ago
      I don't like to comment on downvotes on my posts but seriously? Do people really think that the actual links when you search are not the primary search results?
      - cpeterso 8y ago
        Good question. (I didn't downvote you!) Reading DDG's FAQ, it's not clear to me if "more traditional links in the search results" means the search results (after the Instant Answers) after exclusively sourced from Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex or if they mean "mixed in" with links from the other sources. Is the web too big for a new search engine company to compete with its own crawler? Or are Google, Bing, Yandex, and Baidu the only search engine companies big enough to crawl the web effectively?
        Kiro 8y ago
        DDG themselves elaborated a bit about that in their previous Sources page: > 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.

They do have their own engine.

by sveme 8y ago

They do have their own engine.

Kiro 8y ago

Not for regular search results. https://duck.co/help/results/sources https://duck.co/help/results/sources

cpeterso 8y ago
What is a "regular search result"? Your link says: "DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we source from Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex." I use DDG because I like its !bang searches and I genuinely prefer its Instant Answers and page layout over Google's.
- Kiro 8y ago
  The last part of your quote is what most people associate search results with.
  - Kiro 8y ago
    I don't like to comment on downvotes on my posts but seriously? Do people really think that the actual links when you search are not the primary search results?
    - cpeterso 8y ago
      Good question. (I didn't downvote you!) Reading DDG's FAQ, it's not clear to me if "more traditional links in the search results" means the search results (after the Instant Answers) after exclusively sourced from Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex or if they mean "mixed in" with links from the other sources. Is the web too big for a new search engine company to compete with its own crawler? Or are Google, Bing, Yandex, and Baidu the only search engine companies big enough to crawl the web effectively?
      - Kiro 8y ago
        DDG themselves elaborated a bit about that in their previous Sources page: > 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.