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DDG started out using Bing. Now they use other resources as well, and also have their own internal web search. Yahoo search is largely powered by Bing, as wel
by JJMcJ 6y ago
DDG started out using Bing.
Now they use other resources as well, and also have their own internal web search.
Yahoo search is largely powered by Bing, as well. That's kind of funny since MSFT wanted to buy Yahoo at one point.
Also, there is the concept of dependent competitors. In old days, GM sold transmissions to American Motors, for example. So American Motors was a dependent competitor of GM.
- kube-system 6y agoThat kind of stuff still happens with automakers -- maybe even more so these days. Heck, sometimes competitors buy an entire platform from another manufacturer and put their own branding on it.
- Kiro 6y agoThe majority of results still comes from Bing: > 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). https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so... Note that their own crawler is only mentioned in the context of Instant Answers so it doesn't seem it's actually used for any regular search results.