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They aggregate from "over 400 sources" and run their own crawler: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/ https://help.duckduckgo.com
by marpstar 5y ago
They aggregate from "over 400 sources" and run their own crawler: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
- bduerst 5y agoDo they list their "sources"? It reads like they are saying a website = source, and the hyperlink for the sources is dead.
- cato_the_elder 5y agoThat's just their corporate propaganda. For the most part, it's Bing with some additional features. Their crawler (DuckDuckBot) doesn't have much of an impact on the search results, it's mainly used to provide instant answers. [1] [1]: https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes.html#fn:2 https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe...
- etataetaet 5y agoTo be fair the instant answers are usually quite good!