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Are there any implications for DDG here?
by rlpb 15y ago
Are there any implications for DDG here?
- notatoad 15y agoi believe that DDG accesses the Bing indices through the Yahoo BOSS API, and yahoo already pays microsoft.
- eli 15y agoThat does not seem like a stable long-term arrangement, but what do I know.
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- mda 15y agoDoes anybody know what percentage of queries in DDG site is answered by bing?
- guimarin 15y agoso long as you're not doing a !bang specialized query, all of them.
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- tcwc 15y agoThis happened a few years ago when Yahoo BOSS started charging, back then Gabriel said they'd moved over to Bing (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1612081 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1612081). I'm sure they still make heavy use of the Bing API, but have since expanded their range of sources to soften the blow somewhat. They're now getting results from Blekko (who run their own index), and are I'm sure they've been building out their own index. There's a full list of sources here - http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-sources http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-s.... We also don't have any pricing details for higher volume usage of Bing, and DDG are in a much better position to negotiate a better deal these days.
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