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Does DuckDuckGo pay for the Bing engine? And what happens if Microsoft tries to stop them from using it, or they put some limitations on it for 3rd parties?
by nextparadigms 15y ago
Does DuckDuckGo pay for the Bing engine? And what happens if Microsoft tries to stop them from using it, or they put some limitations on it for 3rd parties?
- fuckingidiot 15y agoSeriously.. that is the best question you have? You disgust me.
- mitko 15y agoWhat other options for backend besides Bing are there if one would like to do make a new search engine?
- unfare 15y agoyandex
- gaoprea 15y agoThe Common Crawl index, already has 5bn ranked pages, and the data is open to everyone - http://www.commoncrawl.org/ http://www.commoncrawl.org/
- 110101001010100 15y agoFrom the genius who brought us what Google adapted as AdSense. I applaud this effort. I'm no Spike Lee, but in my opinion this is doing the right thing. Let people compete over what to do with the raw data (data which is of course publicly accessible but subject to the strange inequities of crawling), how best to process and present it, not over access to it. DDG has to pay Yahoo! for a BOSS license. That is just strange when you think about how the raw data was obtained. It is publicly available information. Nothing against Yahoo! for doing that (selling access to publicly available data), as there are many other examples of this practice across web- "everyone else is doing it". But I do not think it is "the right thing" to do.
- yters 15y agoYeah, why do I have to pay for things like a car and what not? They all come from publicly accessible goods. Bunch of scammers.
- 110101001010100 15y agoMaybe the question is not why you have to pay for your car, but why you _do not_ have to pay to view information via a website, store a copy of this in RAM and/or save a copy using secondary storage. Why is it typically "free" for you to do that?
- mk 15y agoDDG uses Yahoo! Boss. http://www.ysearchblog.com/2011/06/27/ydn-qa-with-duckduckgo-a-search-engine-built-with-boss/ http://www.ysearchblog.com/2011/06/27/ydn-qa-with-duckduckgo...
- notatoad 15y agowhich in turn uses bing.
- azakai 15y agoThe details of DDG's arrangement with Bing are obviously not public. However, it is a very safe bet that DDG either gets the information for free, or essentially for free, simply because to do otherwise would make no sense for Microsoft. Microsoft benefits from anything that even potentially reduces Google's market share, by any amount. Of course, that puts DDG in a dangerous situation, since it depends on Microsoft. Perhaps it has a long-term binding commitment from Microsoft, though, that wouldn't surprise me either.