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DuckDuckGo is not it's own search engine. It's an aggregator of other search engines (mostly Bing).
by Aditya_Garg 8y ago
DuckDuckGo is not it's own search engine. It's an aggregator of other search engines (mostly Bing).
- jlarocco 8y agoI can't believe can't even do the tiniest bit of research. DDG isn't an aggregator, and it doesn't use Bing any more than it uses Google, Wikipedia, StackOverflow or anything else. https://duck.co/forum/thread/4350/did-you-know-that-duckduckgo-bing https://duck.co/forum/thread/4350/did-you-know-that-duckduck...
- LeoPanthera 8y agoAnd yet their own documentation says that their "normal" search results come from Oath (Yahoo) and... Bing: https://duck.co/help/results/sources https://duck.co/help/results/sources The other sources are only for their "instant answers" that appear at the top.
- Aditya_Garg 8y agoFrom what Ive read, DDG uses Bing's API to populate its search results. https://www.quora.com/How-is-the-Bing-API-used-by-DuckDuckGo https://www.quora.com/How-is-the-Bing-API-used-by-DuckDuckGo I was just trying to point out that Apple is unlikely to buy a search engine that relies on another competitor's product.