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Re:Show HN: An experimental, people-powered search engine by Seirdy on Saturday May 29, 2021 @03:54AM (#27323730)
I've cataloged a bunch of engines with their own independent indexes: https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26429942

Million Short and DDG both proxy Bing results. YaCy result quality tends to be unusable, but YaCy can be useful for intranet searches.

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Re:Show HN: An experimental, people-powered search engine by scoopertrooper on Saturday May 29, 2021 @05:38AM (#27324104)
> DuckDuckGo's results are a compilation of "over 400" sources,[45] including Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Bing, Yandex, its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot) and others

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo#Search_results

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Re:Show HN: An experimental, people-powered search engine by Seirdy on Saturday May 29, 2021 @10:09PM (#27330015)
That refers to their Instant Answers. The regular link results ("organic results") are proxied from Bing. You can compare them side by side; the order of the results may vary slightly because Bing varies things a little, but the links are the same.

The DuckDuckBot scrapes data from select websites for some Instant Answers and it grabs favicons for other sites.

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Re:Show HN: An experimental, people-powered search engine by ErrrNoMate on Sunday May 30, 2021 @03:28PM (#27335902)
Prime DDG nonsense this, they're pretty much Bing all t h e

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