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majewsky on April 16, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL fro...

The most obvious problem with this conspiracy theory is that Bing became available in 2009, but DuckDuckGo was founded one year earlier.

ColinHayhurst on April 16, 2022 | [–]

DDG used Yahoo to start with; Yahoo had their own index at that time. DDG switched to Bing later, and since then Yahoo abandoned their index and started using Bing.

brewtide on April 16, 2022 | [–]

Bing is (a) sound of having an idea. Perhaps that idea was DDG. bing.

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