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Isn't DDG just Bing w/ some logic to bump up anything that shows up in various authoritative sites like Wikipedia? Yahoo already uses Bing.
by Aloisius 14y ago
Isn't DDG just Bing w/ some logic to bump up anything that shows up in various authoritative sites like Wikipedia?
Yahoo already uses Bing.
- boyter 14y agoFrom a thread on DDG's community site DDG uses Yahoo Boss (not sure if that's Bing powered now) but I would bet anything it can fall over to Bing without too many issues. It came up during a discussion of the new Bing pricing which should come into affect in 2 days or so. DDG does crawl some things directly as well (DuckDuckBot) but its nowhere close to the scope of Bing/Google. DDG also does meta searchs using API's such has, http://duckduckgo.com/?q=hn+Marissa+Mayer+Googifies+Yahoo http://duckduckgo.com/?q=hn+Marissa+Mayer+Googifies+Yahoo http://duckduckgo.com/?q=copperhead+road+lyrics http://duckduckgo.com/?q=copperhead+road+lyrics http://duckduckgo.com/?q=code+perl+%3D~ http://duckduckgo.com/?q=code+perl+%3D~ The top zero click result is from other sources on the web (disclosure the last one comes from my site). The only search engine I have found which gets close to this is VerticalSet although with the new Bing pricing I am not sure how long it will exist for now.
- hnriot 14y agoyes, there's a lot of misconceptions here on hn about what DDG actually is. Indexing the web, now, is beyond the capabilities and budget of individuals, you need the resources and backing of a company like google, ibm or microsoft to do so. DDG is federated search, not a search engine. While they might crawl a few sites, it's Bing that you're seeing in the result, the work of Microsoft engineers (along with any remaining PowerSet guys.)
- Evbn 14y agoGabriel seems to enjoy encouraging the misconception that DDG is a search engine.