DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps

Re:DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps by bunderbunder on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @01:24PM (#18913499)

Apple is missing a search engine. That doesn't imply that Apple needs a search engine, nor does it imply that acquiring one would be the most profitable thing they could be doing with their available resources.

Arguably, a key part of Apple's success is that they don't behave like Microsoft.

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Re:DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps by partiallypro on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @01:39PM (#18913629)

DDG doesn't even -really- have a search engine, they are using Bing's API. So the acquisition wouldn't even make sense.

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Re:DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps by JohnFen on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @03:57PM (#18915149)

DDG uses Bing as well as a bunch of other sources, including their own crawlers. Portraying it as a sort of "Bing in disguise" is incorrect.

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Re:DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps by Kiro on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @05:38PM (#18916291)

Their own crawler is not used for organic search results. See sibling comment.

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Re:DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps by throwawaymath on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @02:33PM (#18914140)

Wait, really? I thought DuckDuckGo merely implemented APIs ("bangs") to fallback search engine providers in case a user preferred it.

Surely DuckDuckGo has implemented their own search engine, crawler and indexer apart from other providers?

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Re:DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps by Kiro on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @02:45PM (#18914258)

> Surely DuckDuckGo has implemented their own search engine, crawler and indexer apart from other providers?

No. They have their own crawler but it's only used for Instant Answers and other widget stuff.

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 also source from a variety of partners, including Oath (formerly Yahoo) and Bing.

So in other words, all organic search results come from Bing and Oath.

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Re:DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps by throwawaymath on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @02:47PM (#18914285)

But then what's the point?

EDIT: This is an honest question, not snark. I'd appreciate an honest answer instead of a blind drive-by downvote. I don't learn anything about why a thin UI layer over a bunch of search engines I can access directly is useful for privacy if you just downvote my comment.

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Re:DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps by symlinkk on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @03:35PM (#18914850)

Because you're not accessing the search engines directly, you're going through a sort of proxy that hides your identity.

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Re:DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps by Aeolun on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @05:09PM (#18915989)

I have to agree I’m dissapointed by this. I thought there was at least one party with an independent web search engine.

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Re:DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps by lowpro on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @01:37PM (#18913616)

With Apple pushing privacy as a major feature of iOS compared to alternatives, if the company continues taking a consumer focused, privacy respecting approach acquiring DDG could help strengthen branding, and maybe bring together an integrated privacy solution competing with Google’s integrated ad solution.

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Re:DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps by loueed on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @01:32PM (#18913562)

Would DDG improve apples AI work? Google seems to be ahead of Apple with smart assistants, maybe that only a result of bad privacy policies on Googles part.

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