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Re:Google backtracks on search results design by knolan on Saturday January 25, 2020 @04:21AM (#22145528)
> Duckduckgo itself uses Bing Search as its backend.

Can you provide a source for this? I couldn’t find it myself, but I was searching with DDG.

“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 Verizon Media (formerly Yahoo) and Bing.“

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Re:Google backtracks on search results design by Kiro on Saturday January 25, 2020 @08:37AM (#22146173)
I read the last sentence as if the actual search results all come from Bing and Verizon while they have their own crawler and 400 other sources for Instant Answers and other widgets.
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Re:Google backtracks on search results design by Summershard on Monday January 27, 2020 @05:15AM (#22158121)
Well, it does use Bing as its backend. Not solely though.
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