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Wouldn't it be funny if DDG was actually Google.

• cigaser 5y ago
  It is using Bing engine and data.
  • anoonmoose 5y ago
    That would make it even funnier!
    • cigaser 5y ago
      It is not a joke. There is a partnership with Microsoft. Search engines are hard.
      • kortilla 5y ago
        Whoosh. The joke is that Google owns DDG despite it being backed by Bing.
  • magnusmundus 5y ago
    ...among other sources. "Over four hundred" [1] of them. [1] https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/
    • Seirdy 5y ago
      Those apply only to non-organic results (instant answers, zero-click info). Organic results are proxied from Bing (or sometimes Yandex) verbatim. DuckDuckGo's crawlers only fetch icons and scrape data for some of their instant answers.
    • skinnymuch 5y ago
      They aren’t really used for the actual index. Bing represents 95% of their actual index.
• julienfr112 5y ago
  Even more funny, what about google financing a competiting browser ? wait ...
• vmception 5y ago
  Hilarious even, but I wouldn’t be mad though
• seriousquestion 5y ago
  And if Signal was actually the NSA.