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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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