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DDG is not a real search engine, I think this project is way more impressive than DDG.

• colejohnson66 7y ago
  DDG absolutely is a search engine; It’s a system (engine) that lets you search. From Wikipedia[0]: > A web search engine or Internet search engine is a software system that is designed to carry out web search (Internet search), which means to search the World Wide Web in a systematic way for particular information specified in a textual web search query. Just because they don’t do the crawling like Google and Bing doesn’t mean they aren’t a search engine. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine
  • palerdot 7y ago
    This is tautology. In that case, everyone can just put up their own html page with a search box, proxying the results from Google or Bing, and can claim that they have built a search engine ...
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