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Re:Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Steali... by maxerickson on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @06:52AM (#12733351)
I don't think DuckDuckGo is using Google.

https://duck.co/help/results/sources

In fact, DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we source from Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex.

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Re:Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Steali... by antocv on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @06:58AM (#12733365)
Oh that is nice, was not the case last time I checked duck.

Still, duckduckgo is an US company, better stay away from those given the history of last decade.

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Re:Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Steali... by laurent123456 on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @07:23AM (#12733454)
So better go with Yandex, the Russian company?
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Re:Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Steali... by blacksmith_tb on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @05:43PM (#12739005)
Potentially, unless you happen to be in Russia... clearly if you live in say, Belgium (or Singapore, or New Zealand, etc.), it's unlikely that any Russian agency that has access to your searches will share that data outside their borders. Of course it's generally your service provider that you have to worry about.
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Re:Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Steali... by kuschku on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @08:17AM (#12733679)
Yes, if there’s multiple international companies competing, that’s better than one (even if it might be morally good) company having a monopoly.
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Re:Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Steali... by maxerickson on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @08:01AM (#12733603)
As I understand it, they've never used Google's index.
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