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Re:Improving DuckDuckGo by Kiro on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @03:07AM (#18439448)
https://duck.co/help/results/sources

> We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from a variety of partners, including Oath (formerly Yahoo) and Bing.

They do not have their own search index.

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Re:Improving DuckDuckGo by mrweasel on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @05:22AM (#18439970)
Really... You read the last part of that paragraph, but no the first?

>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).

Kinda silly to have a crawler that doesn't index anything.

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Re:Improving DuckDuckGo by Kiro on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @06:50AM (#18440287)
They have an index but just for their Instant Answers (for which they have 400 sources) and not the organic search results. The last paragraph is what's relevant to the actual search index.
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