Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good
by jhoechtl on Saturday February 08, 2020 @10:14AM
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Yes, as we know nothing about the percentage of traffic which is coming from google, bing or any of the remaining 398 ressources. I can only assume the contribution is abysmal, given the almight of the one trully.
Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good
by wongarsu on Saturday February 08, 2020 @11:40AM
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I read that as "Over four hundred sources for instant answers (the big box at the top) etc. What you usually think of as search results ("traditional links") comes from multiple partners, mostly from Bing (and never from Google, which only leaves Yandex and niche providers)".
That fits well with what GP claimed.
> To do that, 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 multiple partners, though most commonly from Bing (and none from Google).
Do you view that as misleading/incorrect?