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I'll probably be downvoted to hell, but I have to say this. I'm Ukrainian, so I have bias against anything related to Russian government, especially services pr

I'll probably be downvoted to hell, but I have to say this. I'm Ukrainian, so I have bias against anything related to Russian government, especially services pretending to be improving my privacy. So, my question is, what is DuckDuckGo's relationship to Yandex, a company fully controlled by Russian government and having track record sharing personal information with Russian security services?

JCSato 8y ago
Are. . .you aware of some relationship between the two? I don't think I've ever heard of them being linked.
- 43920 8y ago
  DuckDuckGo has a deal with Yandex to display search results from them on some searches. If you search for something in Russian, you'll see a "in partnership with Yandex" message in the corner of the search results page.
  - gmueckl 8y ago
    Can you narrow the set of search engines from which the results are pulled?
    - detaro 8y ago
      no, they don't expose the sources.
  - JCSato 8y ago
    Ah, thank you for explaining.
nickpsecurity 8y ago
DuckDuckGo seems to be a metasearch engine that pulls from other sources and integrates the results somehow. It mainly uses Bing/Yahoo search. Yandex is also one of its sources. It shouldn't have a lot of risk if it's anonymizing the data sent to Yandex. I think there's bigger risk in network-level hacks of Ukraine by Russia where they could look at traffic directly or via stolen logs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine https://duck.co/help/results/sources https://duck.co/help/results/sources
we_love_slon 8y ago
Yandex is a public company. How is it affiliated to Russian government exactly?