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0 pointsars7y ago0 comments

> Google needs DDG to exist

DDG is just a frontend to Bing. They need Bing to exist, not DDG.

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I thought DDG had its own indexer as well, and aggregated from several sources, including Bing.

Kiro7y ago

Their own crawler is only used for widgets and stuff. All the organic results are from Bing and Yahoo.

is that literally true? I thought not

Kiro7y ago

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0 pointsars7y ago0 comments

> Google needs DDG to exist

DDG is just a frontend to Bing. They need Bing to exist, not DDG.

I thought DDG had its own indexer as well, and aggregated from several sources, including Bing.

Kiro7y ago

Their own crawler is only used for widgets and stuff. All the organic results are from Bing and Yahoo.

is that literally true? I thought not

Kiro7y ago

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse