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Re:Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo by ars on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @10:37AM (#18664760)
DDG just uses Bing, the existence of DDG is irrelevant to this, Bing is what counts.
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Re:Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo by losvedir on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @12:11PM (#18665634)
Agreed, and you shouldn't be down voted for it.

I like DDG, and use it, but it's mostly a pretty front end on a now-deprecated Bing API. If Bing shut down, DDG wouldn't be far behind.

I've never seen a DDG crawler in any of my logs, though I've seen plenty of Google and Bing (and others). DDG does some nice instant answer and bang stuff, but the actual deep search results are all Bing (and maybe Yandex?)

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Re:Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo by Kiro on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @02:00PM (#18666689)
Yes, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18664967

The DDG crawler is not used for organic results, only for stuff like the widgets. All organic results are from Bing and Yahoo (and possibly Yandex).

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