Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Verizon’s websites

Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by notRobot on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @10:44AM (#22605253)

Putting this out there in case folks aren't aware:

DuckDuckGo is powered almost entirely by Yahoo!. In turn, Yahoo! search is powered almost entirely by Bing.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by epi0Bauqu on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @10:53AM (#22605378)

No we're not.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by lostgame on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:31PM (#22609230)

Ha, this is why I love HN.

Thanks for the awesomeness of DDG, and if you ever need help with your mobile site, let me know. claire at theoic dot me.

I love what you guys do, but your mobile UX leaves a ton to be desired and even some very basic tweaks would go a long way to significant improvement. :)

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by wolco on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @12:50AM (#22613743)

On average what percent do most search results served come from bing vs your ddg crawls or any of the other 400 sources?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by dksidana on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @10:59AM (#22605453)

even on bing ?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by mtmail on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @11:03AM (#22605505)

epi0Bauqu is the founder of DuckDuckGo, he will know.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by zenexer on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @11:22AM (#22605714)

This is incorrect. Per https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...:

> ...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).

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by Ygg2 on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @10:55AM (#22605402)

I thought DDG was powered by Bing, like Yahoo. Not DDG by Yahoo by Bing. Color me surprised. Any evidence for this claim?

[ Parent | on HN ]