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DDG is known to be backed by Yandex search engine. This means that your request's metadata is already reported to Russian government services. https://www.quor

DDG is known to be backed by Yandex search engine. This means that your request's metadata is already reported to Russian government services. https://www.quora.com/How-does-the-partnership-between-Yandex-and-DuckDuckGo-work https://www.quora.com/How-does-the-partnership-between-Yande... https://duck.co/forum/thread/2725/yandex-partnership https://duck.co/forum/thread/2725/yandex-partnership

fiiv 8y ago
There seems to be no direct link between DDG and Yandex besides these two links that lack any evidence. Yandex merely appears to be one of DDG's content sources.
- batat 8y ago
  I'm pretty sure there may be some. Please check my comment in previous post about DDG https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17868117 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17868117
  - fiiv 8y ago
    Read your original post. As far as I understand you are saying these two things: 1. Yandex search results very closely match DDG's in Ukrainian (or did) as opposed to Google/Bing 2. When Yandex could no longer operate in Ukraine, DDG's region for Ukraine disappeared I am reminded of Hanlon's Razor in this situation, that perhaps in Ukraine they simply did not fix their search after their top index provider was blocked.
tivert 8y ago
> DDG is known to be backed by Yandex search engine. IIRC, DDG is a privacy-preserving metasearch engine. That means it farms your query out to other search engines and then combines the results. I think it started by proxying Google searches to hide your metadata from Google. > This means that your request's metadata is already reported to Russian government services. This sound like FUD. Why would a metasearch engine send anything out to the search engines it proxies besides the query? It might not even have to make that query for your request if someone else made it recently.

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DDG is known to be backed by Yandex search engine. This means that your request's metadata is already reported to Russian government services. https://www.quor

by tempswdf 8y ago

fiiv 8y ago
There seems to be no direct link between DDG and Yandex besides these two links that lack any evidence. Yandex merely appears to be one of DDG's content sources.
- batat 8y ago
  I'm pretty sure there may be some. Please check my comment in previous post about DDG https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17868117 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17868117
  - fiiv 8y ago
    Read your original post. As far as I understand you are saying these two things: 1. Yandex search results very closely match DDG's in Ukrainian (or did) as opposed to Google/Bing 2. When Yandex could no longer operate in Ukraine, DDG's region for Ukraine disappeared I am reminded of Hanlon's Razor in this situation, that perhaps in Ukraine they simply did not fix their search after their top index provider was blocked.
tivert 8y ago
> DDG is known to be backed by Yandex search engine. IIRC, DDG is a privacy-preserving metasearch engine. That means it farms your query out to other search engines and then combines the results. I think it started by proxying Google searches to hide your metadata from Google. > This means that your request's metadata is already reported to Russian government services. This sound like FUD. Why would a metasearch engine send anything out to the search engines it proxies besides the query? It might not even have to make that query for your request if someone else made it recently.