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infbtag

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About infbtag

Really just here to listen, but trying to join in if I can add anything to the conversation. Occasional HN'Londoner.

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    Comment #15634024

    https://help.qwant.com/help/overview/how-does-qwant-index-th... Although they just show Bing results for me so don't know how much of their own index is actually used.

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    Comment #11102476

    They could use the Bing API directly or just stick with Yandex. http://datamarket.azure.com/dataset/bing/search

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    Comment #10762815

    That's what I always thought but according to this they have a contract: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Artic...

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    Comment #10758112

    Good point! They could definitely be an option then.

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    Comment #10757916

    Yeah sorry, I was only counting engines suitable for DDG, ie. English language etc. There's also Qwant and although they are crawling their results still appear to be Bing.

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    Comment #10757908

    StartPage uses Google so there must be a way.

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    Comment #10757405

    Their only options are Google, Bing, Yandex, Exalead, Gigablast, and Mojeek, and most probably in that order as the last two need to grow considerably first. Unless there's any oth…