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0 pointsjordanmoconnor4y ago0 comments

Wouldn't it be funny if DDG was actually Google.

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Even more funny, what about google financing a competiting browser ? wait ...

It is using Bing engine and data.

...among other sources. "Over four hundred" [1] of them.

Those apply only to non-organic results (instant answers, zero-click info). Organic results are proxied from Bing (or sometimes Yandex) verbatim.

DuckDuckGo's crawlers only fetch icons and scrape data for some of their instant answers.

They aren’t really used for the actual index. Bing represents 95% of their actual index.

That would make it even funnier!

It is not a joke. There is a partnership with Microsoft. Search engines are hard.

Hilarious even, but I wouldn’t be mad though

And if Signal was actually the NSA.

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