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Putting this out there in case folks aren't aware:

DuckDuckGo is powered almost entirely by Yahoo!. In turn, Yahoo! search is powered almost entirely by Bing.



No we're not.


Ha, this is why I love HN.

Thanks for the awesomeness of DDG, and if you ever need help with your mobile site, let me know. claire at theoic dot me.

I love what you guys do, but your mobile UX leaves a ton to be desired and even some very basic tweaks would go a long way to significant improvement. :)


On average what percent do most search results served come from bing vs your ddg crawls or any of the other 400 sources?


even on bing ?


epi0Bauqu is the founder of DuckDuckGo, he will know.


This is incorrect. Per https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...:

> ...DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from multiple partners, though most commonly from Bing (and none from Google).


I thought DDG was powered by Bing, like Yahoo. Not DDG by Yahoo by Bing. Color me surprised. Any evidence for this claim?




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