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Re:Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Googl... by TrueDuality on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @10:51AM (#29796076)
DuckDuckGo is not Bing based.
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Re:Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Googl... by matheweis on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @10:56AM (#29796160)
It does in fact use the Bing backend for the majority of its web searches:

> DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). 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...

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Re:Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Googl... by TrueDuality on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @01:24PM (#29798092)
Of their additional sources they receive the commonly from Bing, but that is only from their additional sources. They use the results from there sure but by no means are they "Bing based".
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Re:Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Googl... by pb7 on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @03:31PM (#29800000)
Their intention is to confuse you, so they're successful on that front.

Their "hundreds of sources" are for very niche topics and appear in separate boxes. The 10 links per page come from Bing which would make them Bing-based.

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