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Anon has a tip (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

My understanding is that they outsource the search part to bing's search back-end. Saying DDG is just Bing is like saying two butchers are the same because they get their meat from the same supplier.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    With all due respect, I don't know enough about butchering but it sounds far less complicated than what we're talking about

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Outsourcing back ends is one of the key parts of being a butcher.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    I can't find any sources to corroborate this claim. Can you link some sources?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    It looks like Bing is just a part of the answer: 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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