> Apple cares about having control over the entire user experience.
Considering DDG is a wrapper for Bing/Yahoo it would be quite the opposite.
Considering DDG is a wrapper for Bing/Yahoo it would be quite the opposite.
You can test that they are doing that by searching for something directly on Google, and then searching for it on Siri. If the results page differ, there is a chance that Siri is not passing along state information to Google.
Search engine providers provide results as json page without decoration. Everything about the user experience is controlled by the code converting that json into display. This is what DDG does.
Everything about the user experience is controlled by the 'front end' which is making a call to the search engine service on its 'back end'.
The only difference here is how much tracking/PII is part of the request that is sent to the search engine. I was saying you can test that by comparing Siri results with those obtained through a web browser which is forwarding cookies full of PII and tracking information.
Edit: Apparently they use yahoo and bing as a source for some of their results then filter and combine it with other things: https://web.archive.org/web/20150124074006/https://duck.co/h...