Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

Kind of, they have their own crawler (DuckDuckBot) and I'm not sure if that changed, but they used to source at least from Yahoo and Yandex. [0]

Although yes, its usually Bing.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20180203071252/https://duck.co/h...




That crawler is only used for Instant Answers for specific queries, not the standard 10 search result links. Yahoo has also been powered by Bing for a long time now as well.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: