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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by notatoad on Friday December 12, 2014 @05:23PM (#8743079)
>I'm still not going to use Yahoo search as it's really just Google search

Yahoo is a Bing frontend now. Same as DuckDuckGo.

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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by TheCraiggers on Friday December 12, 2014 @05:34PM (#8743127)
According to https://duck.co/help/results/sources you are incorrect. DuckDuckGo pulls their results from many sources, including bing, Yahoo, and their own bots.
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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by notatoad on Friday December 12, 2014 @10:17PM (#8743985)
That doesnt say I'm incorrect. the official pr says that they combine over 100 sources including bing without specifying how heavily they rely on any single source. But I've seen many times comments from ddg staff on here saying its mostly bing.
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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by djjose on Friday December 12, 2014 @09:51PM (#8743923)
Yahoo hasn't had a search back-end since about the Bing deal. Most everyone on those teams was laid off while they transitioned over. Yahoo BOSS is backed by Bing.

src: http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-boss-moves-from-yahoos-ind...

src2: I worked on the Yahoo Search team at the time of the deal.

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