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Does DuckDuckGo still use Yahoo BOSS search API? (based on Bing) $1.80 / 1000 queries: https://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/#pricing https://developer.yaho

by castell 11y ago

Does DuckDuckGo still use Yahoo BOSS search API? (based on Bing) $1.80 / 1000 queries: https://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/#pricing https://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/#pricing

pki 11y ago
yandex
- yellowapple 11y ago
  Yandex and BOSS are just two of many sources: https://duck.co/help/results/sources https://duck.co/help/results/sources
  - castell 11y ago
    Beside PR talk, technically it's this way: Bing through Yahoo BOSS API (which isn't free anymore) is the main source (and Yandex is used instead of Bing for certain countries in Europe&Asia). All other sources are smaller sources that augment the main search results. DDG is at the moment a meta search engine. There was a recent search engine startup with its own large scale crawler, Blekko. Though, recently IBM bought it for their Watson AI, as a knowledge base.
    - yellowapple 11y ago
      From what I understand, DDG also has its own crawler, but yes, it's mostly a meta search engine at the moment.