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You realize that Yahoo is Bing right? Yahoo outsourced its native search engine to Microsoft a while ago and has served up results from them ever since.

as is duckduckgo.

what?

did you actually think that ddg runs its own crawlers, indexing, ranking, etc.?

apparently it does, in addition to other sources (https://dukgo.com/help/en_US/results/sources). But you are right about Bing being one of them. Though I wouldn't go so far as to say that duckduckgo is Bing like the gp said.

For most search queries, the results are identical or very similar, although DDG does a lot of enhancement/cleanup.

/It does some, bit its mostly google.

What do you mean by 'avoid Bing'?

I think he/she is referring to the news that Google tried to delay roll out of Bing in some Asian markets.

Yes I was referring to Yahoo trying to delay roll out of bing in Asian Countries.

This was probably a tactic by Marissa to push Microsoft to modify the terms of the contract to be more favorable. Remember she was not the one who signed it.