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Re:Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and Ch... by fguerraz on Thursday May 23, 2024 @08:23AM (#40453840)
Where did you read such a claim? There is a difference between "only a part" and "largely sourced from".

_Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing. Our focus is synthesizing all these sources to create a superior search experience._

https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources...

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Re:Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and Ch... by udev4096 on Thursday May 23, 2024 @01:02PM (#40457141)
Unless you have been living under a rock, they have said it plenty of times
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Re:Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and Ch... by niutech on Thursday May 23, 2024 @09:43AM (#40454640)
From their FAQ (thanks to Web Archive):

> Where do you get your results?

> From over 30 sources, including DuckDuckBot (our own crawler), crowd-sourced sites (in our own index), Yahoo! BOSS, embed.ly, WolframAlpha, EntireWeb, Bing & Blekko. For any given search, there is usually a vertical search engine out there that does a better job at answering it than a general search engine. Our long-term goal is to get you information from that best source, ideally in instant answer form.

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Re:Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and Ch... by Shank on Thursday May 23, 2024 @01:38PM (#40457609)
Well, at least Blekko is definitely dead from that list, so it’s not a reflection of today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blekko

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Re:Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and Ch... by notatoad on Thursday May 23, 2024 @02:11PM (#40457942)
Yahoo BOSS and WolframAlpha are also bing, right?
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