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Re:We Can Choose an Internet Without Surveillance by eindiran on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @02:24PM (#21528342)
DuckDuckGo doesn't "use bing under the hood" exactly: it has a large number of sources, including some other search engines like Bing, Yahoo and Yandex but also its own crawler ("DuckDuckGoBot")[0].

[0] https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources

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Re:We Can Choose an Internet Without Surveillance by prophesi on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @05:59PM (#21530688)
Thank you for the correction; is this a recent development? I'll definitely give DDG another try, especially in light of rapnie's comment about StartPage's recent acquisition by a company with a very likely conflict of interest.
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