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Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by marpstar on Friday April 15, 2022 @04:21PM (#31045336)
They aggregate from "over 400 sources" and run their own crawler: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
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Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by cato_the_elder on Friday April 15, 2022 @04:36PM (#31045512)
That's just their corporate propaganda. For the most part, it's Bing with some additional features.

Their crawler (DuckDuckBot) doesn't have much of an impact on the search results, it's mainly used to provide instant answers. [1]

[1]: https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe...

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Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by etataetaet on Friday April 15, 2022 @05:40PM (#31046218)
To be fair the instant answers are usually quite good!
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Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by bduerst on Friday April 15, 2022 @04:25PM (#31045384)
Do they list their "sources"?

It reads like they are saying a website = source, and the hyperlink for the sources is dead.

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