• Victor@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hold up. DDG returns Bing results? TIL. Is that true? How do we know? Do they state this, themselves?

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      1 year ago

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

      Most of our search result pages feature one or more Instant Answers. To deliver Instant Answers on specific topics, DuckDuckGo leverages many sources, including specialized sources like Sportradar and crowd-sourced sites like Wikipedia. We also maintain our own crawler (DuckDuckBot) and many indexes to support our results. Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing. Our focus is synthesizing all these sources to create a superior search experience.

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        1 year ago

        Wow okay. It’s not their only source, which I came to believe. That’s good, then. Thank you for the link and quote!