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DuckDuckGo either sells or partners with Yahoo?

19 points by acoyfellow 14y ago

glennos 14y ago
Just a guess, but the /boss might have something to do with the Yahoo BOSS API. http://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/ http://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/
ConstantineXVI 14y ago
They've been known to be using BOSS for a while, see http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-sources http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-s...
Bob_Sheep 14y ago
DuckDuckGo, among other sources uses Yahoo search boss. http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399 http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399
mtgx 14y ago
Selling to Yahoo, with Marissa as its CEO, would probably help DDG become a lot larger and more mainstream. Yahoo could buy both DDG and Blekko, and if Yahoo as a company and culture manages to turn around, that resulting search engine could become even more popular than Bing. Yahoo search engine is only a few points behind Bing right now anyway (at least in US), and those were lost because they partnered with Bing in the first place, and those people decided that they might as well use Bing, the source, now. Bing's market share grew mainly because they managed to partner or capture most other niche search engines out there (by getting them to use the Bing API). It didn't take anything away from Google, nor did it replace others on its own. It's actually other engines like Yandex and Baidu that are growing faster than Bing.
- gummydude 14y ago
  selling what? Yahoo already using bing on most searchs. This is just some extension to ddg, not a real news.
tudorconstantin 14y ago
Why can't I see any article from my android (the link gets stuck to http://m.yahoo.com/?p=us http://m.yahoo.com/?p=us) ? I promise I'm not working for google.
- glennos 14y ago
  The link posted is "https://duckduckgo.com/boss/ https://duckduckgo.com/boss/ which just redirects to that Yahoo link. No article to see on this one.
  - tudorconstantin 14y ago
    Thx, I thought my mobile browser was getting a special treatment.
asselinpaul 14y ago
Please don't sell yo Yahoo.
tapan_pandita 14y ago
They probably mean the Yahoo BOSS API http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-sources http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-s...
jacquesm 14y ago
Well, then they're either selling or partnering with bing at the same time: http://www.duckduckgo.com/bing/ http://www.duckduckgo.com/bing/ , as well as blekko: http://www.duckduckgo.com/blekko/ http://www.duckduckgo.com/blekko/ . This is just speculation, not news. Alternative headline: "duckduckgo.com/$engine/ redirects to that search engine".

19 points by acoyfellow 14y ago

Just a guess, but the /boss might have something to do with the Yahoo BOSS API. http://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/ http://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/

ConstantineXVI 14y ago

They've been known to be using BOSS for a while, see http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-sources http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-s...

Bob_Sheep 14y ago

DuckDuckGo, among other sources uses Yahoo search boss. http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399 http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399

mtgx 14y ago

Selling to Yahoo, with Marissa as its CEO, would probably help DDG become a lot larger and more mainstream. Yahoo could buy both DDG and Blekko, and if Yahoo as a company and culture manages to turn around, that resulting search engine could become even more popular than Bing. Yahoo search engine is only a few points behind Bing right now anyway (at least in US), and those were lost because they partnered with Bing in the first place, and those people decided that they might as well use Bing, the source, now. Bing's market share grew mainly because they managed to partner or capture most other niche search engines out there (by getting them to use the Bing API). It didn't take anything away from Google, nor did it replace others on its own. It's actually other engines like Yandex and Baidu that are growing faster than Bing.

gummydude 14y ago
selling what? Yahoo already using bing on most searchs. This is just some extension to ddg, not a real news.

tudorconstantin 14y ago

Why can't I see any article from my android (the link gets stuck to http://m.yahoo.com/?p=us http://m.yahoo.com/?p=us) ? I promise I'm not working for google.

glennos 14y ago
The link posted is "https://duckduckgo.com/boss/ https://duckduckgo.com/boss/ which just redirects to that Yahoo link. No article to see on this one.
- tudorconstantin 14y ago
  Thx, I thought my mobile browser was getting a special treatment.

asselinpaul 14y ago

Please don't sell yo Yahoo.

tapan_pandita 14y ago

They probably mean the Yahoo BOSS API http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-sources http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-s...

jacquesm 14y ago

Well, then they're either selling or partnering with bing at the same time: http://www.duckduckgo.com/bing/ http://www.duckduckgo.com/bing/ , as well as blekko: http://www.duckduckgo.com/blekko/ http://www.duckduckgo.com/blekko/ . This is just speculation, not news. Alternative headline: "duckduckgo.com/$engine/ redirects to that search engine".