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Then they still need to build a search engine, DuckDuckGo is just a proxy for google.
by jtd514 8y ago
Then they still need to build a search engine, DuckDuckGo is just a proxy for google.
- moron4hire 8y agoIt's a lot more than "just" a proxy.
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- saagarjha 8y ago> DuckDuckGo is just a proxy for google Bing, I thought?
- mirimir 8y agoI know that Startpage uses Google. And Searx uses Bing. But I think that DuckDuckGo uses multiple sources. Although it's easy to restrict that to Google.
- diffeomorphism 8y agoThey also have their own crawler https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot and additionally use several hundred "sources" for their results https://duck.co/help/results/sources https://duck.co/help/results/sources with the main source seeming to be bing. I don't think google is one of these sources.
- yellowapple 8y agoNo it's not. If anything it's a proxy for Bing, but that's one of many data sources[0] (another of which being DDG's own crawler[1]). I'm not aware of Google actually being one of those data sources; you might be thinking of StartPage, which is a proxy for Google. [0]: https://duck.co/help/results/sources https://duck.co/help/results/sources [1]: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot