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I'll probably be downvoted to hell, but I have to say this. I'm Ukrainian, so I have bias against anything related to Russian government, especially services pretending to be improving my privacy. So, my question is, what is DuckDuckGo's relationship to Yandex, a company fully controlled by Russian government and having track record sharing personal information with Russian security services?

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DuckDuckGo seems to be a metasearch engine that pulls from other sources and integrates the results somehow. It mainly uses Bing/Yahoo search. Yandex is also one of its sources. It shouldn't have a lot of risk if it's anonymizing the data sent to Yandex. I think there's bigger risk in network-level hacks of Ukraine by Russia where they could look at traffic directly or via stolen logs.

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

https://duck.co/help/results/sources

Are. . .you aware of some relationship between the two? I don't think I've ever heard of them being linked.

DuckDuckGo has a deal with Yandex to display search results from them on some searches. If you search for something in Russian, you'll see a "in partnership with Yandex" message in the corner of the search results page.

Can you narrow the set of search engines from which the results are pulled?

no, they don't expose the sources.

Ah, thank you for explaining.

Yandex is a public company. How is it affiliated to Russian government exactly?

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