> At any rate, I got annoyed at this point (mentioning for those who couldn’t tell), so I switched to DuckDuckGo.
For those who might be misled like I used to be DuckDuckGo is just a proxy for Bing.
For those who might be misled like I used to be DuckDuckGo is just a proxy for Bing.
> DuckDuckGo's results are a compilation of "over 400" sources,[15] including Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Bing, Yandex, its own Web crawler (the DuckDuckBot) and others.
Could you elaborate on your comment, I am sincerely interested in learning the details.
Every time the topic of search comes up on HN, someone always jumps in and says this.
Then there are a bunch of other people who jump in and say that Duck is much more than that.
So, which is correct?
Interpret it as you wish. To me it sounds like they are using 400 sources and their own crawler for the Instant Answers stuff but get all their "traditional links in the search result" from Verizon(?) and Bing.
You can run an experiment: would you ever have to be persuaded that for instance Google is much more than just X? Well, no because it's usually proven that it is without someone on the internet having to tell you about it.
Crawling most of the web on a regular basis is incredibly difficult and requires resources that only a company like Google can provide.