Yahoo! BOSS launched on July 9, 2008: http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000599.html http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000599.html Duck Duck Go's site says

Yahoo! BOSS launched on July 9, 2008: http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000599.html http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000599.html Duck Duck Go's site says it was in development for about a year. If it was indeed built on top of BOSS, the developer must've spent 10 months doing pretty much nothing.