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0 pointsutopcell5y ago0 comments

DDG was a collection of perl scripts around Yahoo BOSS (Build You Own Search Service), which is now backed by Bing. Nowadays, DDG has vastly outgrown its original serving by adding their most crucial ingredient: Privacy FUD.

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mrweasel5y ago

That still doesn't really answer the question of how DDG is a Yahoo customer. BOSS is dead, and replaced by an ad program, which DDG doesn't use.

utopcellOP5y ago

That's true, I was just explaining why one would think DDG is a Yahoo customer.

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mrweasel5y ago

That still doesn't really answer the question of how DDG is a Yahoo customer. BOSS is dead, and replaced by an ad program, which DDG doesn't use.

utopcellOP5y ago

That's true, I was just explaining why one would think DDG is a Yahoo customer.

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