Re:DuckDuckGo Sees Record Traffic After NSA PRISM Scandal
by Kiro on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @08:40AM
(#5905130)
I hope people are aware of the fact that DDG does not have its own index and is using Bing under the hood.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Sees Record Traffic After NSA PRISM Scandal
by m-r-a-m on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @09:06AM
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"DuckDuckGo gets its results from over one hundred sources, including DuckDuckBot (our own crawler), crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, which are stored in our own index), Yahoo! (through BOSS), WolframAlpha, Bing, and Yandex." [1]
[1] http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-s...
Re:DuckDuckGo Sees Record Traffic After NSA PRISM Scandal
by dnda on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @11:58AM
(#5906284)
For some reason they never say what percentage of (unique)queries are answered by which source though...
Re:DuckDuckGo Sees Record Traffic After NSA PRISM Scandal
by crazedpsyc on Thursday June 20, 2013 @09:53PM
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Because it varies widely :).
It is entirely based on your query -- whichever source is detected as best for that type of query (i.e. Yandex is better at handling symbols, Bing's advanced syntax is better [mostly]), and of course it changes over time as rules are tweaked and added.