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Per https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/, "...DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. T

Per https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/, "...DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from multiple partners, though most commonly from Bing (and none from Google)." So yes, while they do get results from Bing, it's a bit disingenuous to say that DuckDuckGo is just Bing.

bla3 6y 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.
- jamespullar 6y ago
  The page I linked above doesn't mention DuckDuckHack. Are you quoting that from a different source? It does mention DuckDuckBot which is their own web crawler. https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/du...
  - bla3 6y ago
    Hey cool, then that page changed recently. I hadn't heard of duckduckbot, that's exciting!
    - qchris 6y ago
      Same! I knew about duckduckhack, but that it had been put in "maintenance mode" a couple years ago, but wasn't aware that DDG had started operating their own crawler. It's exciting to see--I'm hopeful they'll be able to leverage it to improve their result quality and capabilities while staying privacy-friendly.
      - mikkom 6y ago
        They have been crawling for a while and AFAIK the data is used at their instant answers, not on search results.
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bla3 6y 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.

jamespullar 6y ago
The page I linked above doesn't mention DuckDuckHack. Are you quoting that from a different source? It does mention DuckDuckBot which is their own web crawler. https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/du...
- bla3 6y ago
  Hey cool, then that page changed recently. I hadn't heard of duckduckbot, that's exciting!
  - qchris 6y ago
    Same! I knew about duckduckhack, but that it had been put in "maintenance mode" a couple years ago, but wasn't aware that DDG had started operating their own crawler. It's exciting to see--I'm hopeful they'll be able to leverage it to improve their result quality and capabilities while staying privacy-friendly.
    - mikkom 6y ago
      They have been crawling for a while and AFAIK the data is used at their instant answers, not on search results.

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