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DDG also depends on Bing somewhat.

Having access to Cliqz' crawler would help reduce that dependence.

To be clear, though, DDG does have a crawler of its own, and has historically used Yandex data as well (though I don't know if they still do). IIRC they also used Yahoo, but now that's basically indistinguishable from Bing.

DDG doesn't operate their own index, they use Bing.

IIRC, they do actually have their own index too.

Source for their own index?

I was just remembering from another HN comment a while back, but there is this: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-source-of-DuckDuckGo-search-...

Looks to be answered by someone at DDG confirming it.

https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/du...

Seems like DDG would be going "we're an obvious candidate to benefit from that".

Or maybe not, I have no idea the technical details.