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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by jordanmoconnor on Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:02PM (#26906757)
Wouldn't it be funny if DDG was actually Google.
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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by julienfr112 on Thursday April 22, 2021 @04:40PM (#26907905)
Even more funny, what about google financing a competiting browser ? wait ...
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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by cigaser on Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:06PM (#26906807)
It is using Bing engine and data.
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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by magnusmundus on Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:54PM (#26907399)
...among other sources. "Over four hundred" [1] of them.

[1] https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/

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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by Seirdy on Thursday April 22, 2021 @04:13PM (#26907600)
Those apply only to non-organic results (instant answers, zero-click info). Organic results are proxied from Bing (or sometimes Yandex) verbatim.

DuckDuckGo's crawlers only fetch icons and scrape data for some of their instant answers.

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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by skinnymuch on Monday April 26, 2021 @08:22AM (#26941748)
They aren’t really used for the actual index. Bing represents 95% of their actual index.
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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by anoonmoose on Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:11PM (#26906855)
That would make it even funnier!
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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by cigaser on Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:36PM (#26907168)
It is not a joke. There is a partnership with Microsoft. Search engines are hard.
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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by kortilla on Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:51PM (#26907372)
Whoosh. The joke is that Google owns DDG despite it being backed by Bing.
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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by vmception on Thursday April 22, 2021 @06:40PM (#26908993)
Hilarious even, but I wouldn’t be mad though
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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by seriousquestion on Thursday April 22, 2021 @08:43PM (#26909825)
And if Signal was actually the NSA.
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