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Not to take anything away from the guys, but it is not fair to lineup DuckDuckGo aside Google, Bing and Cuil. It’s simply misleading, yes DuckDuckGo is an interface to search engines.

All this time I thought it was a fully independent search engine. Whoops.

Actually, it is a hybrid. I have my own index and do my own crawling as well.

http://yandex.com (Russian search engine) recently launched global English search.

There's the Chinese http://www.baidu.com/ .

There's the Korean Naver http://www.naver.com. Korea's daum http://www.daum.net English search results is also being powered by Bing.

DuckDuckGo is just an interface to Bing.

It's certainly more than that and I have a lot of code to prove it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines#General