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