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		njr123 on June 29, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Used DuckDuckGo for a Week and Had to Switch Bac... DDG doesn't actually have their own search engine though right? They are using Yahoo/Bing on the backend?

pestaa on June 29, 2013 [–]

DDG does have its own search engine, but it also takes advantage of the dataset Yahoo/Bing collected.

sp332 on June 29, 2013 | [–]

They also have a custom blacklist of spam sites that will not show up in search results, even if they are indexed in the Bing dataset.

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