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minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up5·8 months agoI don’t think DDG runs its own indexer. It’s a frontend to other search engines.
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-28 months agoRight; they mostly use Bing. Bing is the largest search engine that has an official API, so the majority of services that need search functionality use it, including voice assistants like Siri and Bixby, smaller search engines like DuckDuckGo, etc.
I don’t think DDG runs its own indexer. It’s a frontend to other search engines.
Right; they mostly use Bing. Bing is the largest search engine that has an official API, so the majority of services that need search functionality use it, including voice assistants like Siri and Bixby, smaller search engines like DuckDuckGo, etc.