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Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by frosted-flakes on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @08:15AM (#22117240)
DuckDuckGo do have their own crawler (DuckDuckBot), and they augment their results with other search providers other than Bing, including Yandex.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by Kiro on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @09:26AM (#22117761)
https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...

They seem to only use their crawler for Instant Answer type results while all their "traditional links" come from "a variety of partners, including Verizon Media (formerly Yahoo) and Bing".

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Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by IndexPointer on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @01:47PM (#22120635)
The text in their help is confusing, but it kind of implies that their crawler is for answers only, and that web results come from Bing and yahoo (which is powered by Bing).
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Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by skinnymuch on Thursday January 23, 2020 @06:14AM (#22126582)
It’s not augmenting when almost all their results are from Bing. Most people on HN seem to try to spin it that way. Which isn’t correct.
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