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Re:IBM Watson Acquires Technology from Blekko by thomasfoster96 on Sunday March 29, 2015 @07:49PM (#9286965)
Blekko had a sizeable index of their own. Most successful meta-search engines (like DuckDuckGo) keep their own index because there's not a lot they can get from a Yandex api call.
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Re:IBM Watson Acquires Technology from Blekko by greenstork on Monday March 30, 2015 @12:11AM (#9287610)
My understanding is actually the opposite. While DuckDuckGo does have a small index of their own, they mainly rely on api calls to Yandex and Yahoo BOSS!
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Re:IBM Watson Acquires Technology from Blekko by thomasfoster96 on Monday March 30, 2015 @12:42AM (#9287691)
They do rely upon the API calls, but their spam elimination requires full web pages, not just what you get from an API call.
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