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Re:Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps by manigandham on Thursday January 31, 2019 @06:56PM (#19050281)
So they’re going to build their own search engine? Siri doesn’t do anything outside of your own data.
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Re:Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps by perfect_wave on Thursday January 31, 2019 @07:35PM (#19050583)
What if Apple bought Duckduckgo?
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Re:Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps by jtd514 on Thursday January 31, 2019 @07:46PM (#19050645)
Then they still need to build a search engine, DuckDuckGo is just a proxy for google.
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Re:Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps by yellowapple on Thursday January 31, 2019 @09:19PM (#19051053)
No it's not. If anything it's a proxy for Bing, but that's one of many data sources[0] (another of which being DDG's own crawler[1]). I'm not aware of Google actually being one of those data sources; you might be thinking of StartPage, which is a proxy for Google.

[0]: https://duck.co/help/results/sources

[1]: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot

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Re:Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps by diffeomorphism on Thursday January 31, 2019 @09:04PM (#19050992)
They also have their own crawler https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot and additionally use several hundred "sources" for their results https://duck.co/help/results/sources with the main source seeming to be bing. I don't think google is one of these sources.
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Re:Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps by saagarjha on Thursday January 31, 2019 @08:22PM (#19050802)
> DuckDuckGo is just a proxy for google

Bing, I thought?

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Re:Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps by mirimir on Thursday January 31, 2019 @08:38PM (#19050871)
I know that Startpage uses Google. And Searx uses Bing.

But I think that DuckDuckGo uses multiple sources. Although it's easy to restrict that to Google.

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Re:Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps by moron4hire on Thursday January 31, 2019 @08:01PM (#19050707)
It's a lot more than "just" a proxy.
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Re:Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps by eanzenberg on Thursday January 31, 2019 @07:07PM (#19050381)
It's called "siri suggested website" or "siri knowledge" when I search in Safari.
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