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		shp0ngle on Sept 20, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DuckDuckGo vs Google I still don't understand - does DDG have its own crawler and index, or is it outsourcing all that to third parties? If the second, as I suspect, it's not really long-term viable anyway, is it.

mda on Sept 20, 2017 | [–]

Second, they might crawl a few things, what percentage of the queries are answered by their index, that information they will probably not say.

_r5wf on Sept 20, 2017 | [–]

AFAIK it is the second.

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