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granitDev·

This is so wrong it's laughable. Please provide proof if this ridiculousness.

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I suspect they're referring to the fact that it is? (Well, Bing and 400+ other engines)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo

https://web.archive.org/web/20150124074006/https://duck.co/h...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2017/08/15/bing_microsoft_...

From what I understand, it's mostly Bing + Yandex (for Russian pages) these days - the additional sources are websites that submit their own custom indexing of their pages.

I suspect the nature of things just leads to that even if they have multiple big upstreams.

If bing offers up the best results most of the time DDG will, as a result, offer up bing results most of the time. "Best results" easily determinable even with DDG privacy constraints.

They're definitely doing some cool stuff at DDG and its certainly a hell of a lot more than "a wrapper around bing." I just don't think expanding their own index infrastructure is something feasible for them right now.

Sure, but I don't think it's fair to compare DDG to other search engines that crawl and index the entire web themselves. It's a different user experience for sure but the indexing is (for the most part) the same as Bing.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150124074006/https://duck.co/h...

“Just a wrapper” is misleading, but DDG returns bing results at least some of the time.

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