Re:DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens
by Kiro on Monday June 08, 2020 @04:14PM
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The majority of results still comes from Bing:
> 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).
https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
Note that their own crawler is only mentioned in the context of Instant Answers so it doesn't seem it's actually used for any regular search results.
Re:DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens
by kube-system on Monday June 08, 2020 @03:00PM
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That kind of stuff still happens with automakers -- maybe even more so these days. Heck, sometimes competitors buy an entire platform from another manufacturer and put their own branding on it.
Now they use other resources as well, and also have their own internal web search.
Yahoo search is largely powered by Bing, as well. That's kind of funny since MSFT wanted to buy Yahoo at one point.
Also, there is the concept of dependent competitors. In old days, GM sold transmissions to American Motors, for example. So American Motors was a dependent competitor of GM.