Re:DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface
by mda on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @05:10AM
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Logic. Creating and maintaining a half decent search engine requires a billion dollar worth of infrastructure and talent. They have neither.
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That's circular. They don't have it because they could not?
Alas, it's using bing as one source, it's more than just a proxy to bing. And they seem to have their own crawler as well.
I don't think I've ever seen DDG show up in my logs, and I found this article from a web host that listed out their top crawler traffic and DDG doesn't even register (but something called Sogou is): https://deviceatlas.com/blog/most-active-bots-and-crawlers-w...
It might be that DDG sticks to the to X thousand sites or something like that, so I would imagine that Bing must be providing the majority of the index, but maybe not for more popular queries.