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Google is ready to fill its AI searches with ads (www.theverge.com)
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[–] deleted@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Duckduckgo source their search queries to bing and yahoo.

Their sources:

  1. Other search engines such as bing
  2. Websites search engines such as wikipedia search
  3. They have their own crawlers

As per their website, queries are largely sourced from bing

[–] Belgdore@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

So they are a metacrawler that has additional first party crawlers? That’s actually pretty neat.