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Old 06-24-2011, 09:48 AM  
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Originally Posted by dazzling View Post
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?
http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/...hitecture.html

and

http://www.businessinsider.com/gabri...kduckgo-2011-1

answers a bit about architecture, in the second link he answers questions.
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