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They scrape top results and show it directly in a box (think wikipedia, imdb, lyric engines etc.) thus discouraging users from actually clicking the link. Pers
by ThalesX 7y ago
They scrape top results and show it directly in a box (think wikipedia, imdb, lyric engines etc.) thus discouraging users from actually clicking the link.
Personally, I think it’s nice to have the content instantly available and not having to go to a website for it but I can see how for content producers this means wrapping their websites and making money out of their content.
- RealStickman 7y agoWasn't that something their search copied from ddg?
- scholia 7y agoNo. Google's OneBox, Ask’s Smart Answers, Microsoft’s Instant Answers, and Yahoo Shortcuts all existed at least two years before DDG was even founded in 2008. Also, DDG's "Instant Answers are open source and are maintained on GitHub, where anyone can build or work on them". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo It's not the same sort of massive web-scraping click-stealing operation as Google's OneBox.