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I wish they would partner up with duckduckgo. But then, yahoo wouldn't get the advantage of tracking people for ads.

Microsoft is a provider of search results, while Yahoo and DDG are both primarily consumers/frontends for search. What kind of partnership would Yahoo and DDG have, if they don't complement each other?

Microsoft is also a front-end for search - Bing.

DDG has their own algorithms and indexing for providing search results. Not sure how that partnership would be any different.

duckduckgo uses all available apis (mostly bing) to show search results. all of those apis have a term like "this service may change at any moment".

it would be really silly for a fortune 500 company to base one of its money cows in such a precarious position. only small start ups have the luxury of doing that.

btw, remember why duckduckgo uses bing now?

> btw, remember why duckduckgo uses bing now?

I actually don't. Can you tell us please?

Google changed api terms and pricing out of nowhere

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