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> To my knowledge duck duck go uses Bing's search API to get their results. And their own crawler and wikipedia and stackexchange and about 400 other sources:

> To my knowledge duck duck go uses Bing's search API to get their results. And their own crawler and wikipedia and stackexchange and about 400 other sources: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so... That said, yeah it is mainly a better Bing.

bla3 7y ago
That page basically confirms this. It says > To do that, we've developed an open source Instant Answer platform called DuckDuckHack, which links to https://duckduckhack.com/ https://duckduckhack.com/ which says "DuckDuckHack is now in Maintenance Mode". And the "four hundred sources" link links to 400 special case replies. They are probably useful, but fire rarely. It's basically Bing, and that page is a bunch of spin.
- elliottback 7y ago
  A search in Bing for "cult of the dead cow" seems to give me some localized (Japan) results, while DDG has a bunch of American Beto O'Rourke politics news pieces added.
  - Kiro 7y ago
    The Bing API provides a different set than Bing itself. Compare "cult of the dead cow" on Ecosia Japan (which is a straight-up Bing API proxy) with DDG Japan and you will see that the results are identical.