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DDG is deceptive about their sources. For example, DDG says they aggregate search results from Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex. Well, Yahoo switched to Bing search re
by bduerst 7y ago
DDG is deceptive about their sources.
For example, DDG says they aggregate search results from Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex. Well, Yahoo switched to Bing search results about a decade ago, and Yandex is only really useful for Russian websites. So unless you're searching in Russian, you're getting Bing search results.
DDG also claims they index hundreds of independent sources - by which it means individual web pages. By that logic, Google and Bing index billions of sources compared to DDG's four hundred or so, which end up being redundant to Bing's indexed results anyways.
- ricardo81 7y agoThe only activity I've seen from their crawler is fetching home pages to source the favicons of the site - which they display next to results. They don't appear to crawl the web to index it.