• deleted@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Duckduckgo source their search queries to bing and yahoo.

    Their sources:

    1. Other search engines such as bing
    2. Websites search engines such as wikipedia search
    3. They have their own crawlers

    As per their website, queries are largely sourced from bing

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      1 year ago

      So they are a metacrawler that has additional first party crawlers? That’s actually pretty neat.