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Re:Ask HN: Is there room for another search engine? by Vinnl on Sunday March 26, 2017 @02:01PM (#13962093)
7% for Bing? That's huge!

(Also, how about DuckDuckGo? I've got the (admittedly gut) feeling that it should at least outperform Ask and Excite.)

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Re:Ask HN: Is there room for another search engine? by Animats on Sunday March 26, 2017 @02:25PM (#13962229)
DuckDuckGo didn't make the world list.[1] A US survey has them at 0.41%.[2]

[1] https://www.netmarketshare.com/search-engine-market-share.as... [2] https://www.searchenginejournal.com/august-2016-search-marke...

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Re:Ask HN: Is there room for another search engine? by tinus_hn on Monday March 27, 2017 @04:26PM (#13971432)
They are a privacy minded search engine, it's quite possible such a survey would underestimate their share.
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Re:Ask HN: Is there room for another search engine? by eatmyshorts on Sunday March 26, 2017 @02:20PM (#13962206)
DuckDuckGo doesn't crawl/index by itself--it partners with other companies to use their search indexing. Bing is one of their primary sources of indexing, actually, although Wikipedia tells me that DDG's indexing is a compilation of "about 50 sources".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo

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Re:Ask HN: Is there room for another search engine? by mrweasel on Sunday March 26, 2017 @03:10PM (#13962510)
DuckDuckGo do have their own crawler: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot, but they are dependent on the indexes of others.
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Re:Ask HN: Is there room for another search engine? by bogomipz on Sunday March 26, 2017 @06:27PM (#13963705)
Interesting, I had no idea. I wonder if they have or ever had plans to index themselves? The wiki link mentions they have do their own crawler.
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Re:Ask HN: Is there room for another search engine? by Vinnl on Sunday March 26, 2017 @04:00PM (#13962868)
Yeah but neither do some of the other mentioned search engines. Apparently DDG just is even smaller than I thought.
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Re:Ask HN: Is there room for another search engine? by smarx007 on Sunday March 26, 2017 @04:18PM (#13963000)
Ahrefs crawls actually more than any search engine other than Google: https://www.incapsula.com/blog/most-active-good-bots.html

And Bing, Yandex, and Yahoo have active crawlers.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there room for another search engine? by greglindahl on Sunday March 26, 2017 @02:19PM (#13962196)
Ask and Excite and all of the other small search engines are showing you Bing and Google results.
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