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  • Pantoffel@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    There are really only two search engines. Its either Google or Bing. The others exist, but they use Google’s and/or Bing’s search results.

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        1 year ago

        DuckDuckGo’s results are a compilation of “over 400” sources according to itself, including Bing, Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Yandex, and its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot); but none from Google. It also uses data from crowdsourced sites such as Wikipedia, to populate knowledge panel boxes to the right of the search results.

        Source: Wikipedia

        So it’s definitely not a “proxy to Bing” but it does use data from Bing.

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        1 year ago

        DDG is Bing by proxy, has been for ages. A while back they had a controversy for having microsoft trackers or something like that, and mentioned it was some stipulation for using Bing results. But they still backed off on that anyway.