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Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017) by bla3 on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:37PM (#23339314)
That page basically confirms this. It says:

> To do that, we've developed an open source Instant Answer platform called DuckDuckHack,

which links to https://duckduckhack.com/ which says "DuckDuckHack is now in Maintenance Mode".

And the "four hundred sources" link links to 400 special case replies. They are probably useful, but fire rarely. It's basically Bing, and that page is a bunch of spin.

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Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017) by jamespullar on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:44PM (#23339416)
The page I linked above doesn't mention DuckDuckHack. Are you quoting that from a different source? It does mention DuckDuckBot which is their own web crawler.

https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/du...

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Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017) by bla3 on Thursday May 28, 2020 @02:05PM (#23340367)
Hey cool, then that page changed recently. I hadn't heard of duckduckbot, that's exciting!
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Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017) by qchris on Thursday May 28, 2020 @03:22PM (#23341295)
Same! I knew about duckduckhack, but that it had been put in "maintenance mode" a couple years ago, but wasn't aware that DDG had started operating their own crawler. It's exciting to see--I'm hopeful they'll be able to leverage it to improve their result quality and capabilities while staying privacy-friendly.
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Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017) by mikkom on Friday May 29, 2020 @01:06AM (#23346443)
They have been crawling for a while and AFAIK the data is used at their instant answers, not on search results.
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