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DDG uses Bing results (+ some tweaking) for their search results. Per their description here: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/adverti
by michaelbuckbee 7y ago
DDG uses Bing results (+ some tweaking) for their search results.
Per their description here: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/advertising-and-affiliates/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/ad...
They use Yahoo ad search syndication to put their own ads against them.
They also insert their own affiliate links onto results.
How is that materially different than what's happening here? That this company presumably doesn't have a backend search API agreement with Bing?
- chrissnell 7y agoThe user is intending to search with Google but the query never touches Google or shows any Google results. That's why it's different. Thanks for the DDG link, though. I had no idea.
- yborg 7y agoApologies for offtopic, but do all search engines do the affiliate thing? I.e. if I click on a Google link and buy a thing on Amazon, Google gets paid?