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Old 06-24-2011, 08:49 AM  
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At the end of the day though, they are reliant on others crawling efforts. This is a problem, because if something doesn't appear in the Bing index then it is unlikely to appear in DuckDuckGo results unless DuckDuckGo crawls those sites itself.
It seems they are drawing results from around 30 resources, Im guessing Bing is the dominant here.
They do mention they also have their own crawler....http://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot.html

It may be as time goes by they may develop and rely on that crawler more.

From their website....Where do you get your results?
From over 30 sources, including DuckDuckBot (our own crawler), crowd-sourced sites (in our own index), Yahoo! BOSS, embed.ly, WolframAlpha, EntireWeb, Bing & Blekko.

Any idea how many servers their using to power all this?
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