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Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by majewsky on Friday April 15, 2022 @09:22PM (#31048159)
The most obvious problem with this conspiracy theory is that Bing became available in 2009, but DuckDuckGo was founded one year earlier.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by ColinHayhurst on Saturday April 16, 2022 @06:10AM (#31051142)
DDG used Yahoo to start with; Yahoo had their own index at that time. DDG switched to Bing later, and since then Yahoo abandoned their index and started using Bing.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by brewtide on Friday April 15, 2022 @10:27PM (#31048700)
Bing is (a) sound of having an idea. Perhaps that idea was DDG. bing.
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