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First, it is misleading to say our results just come from Bing. That's far from the case in actuality. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31490994 for a more detailed explanation on that.

On other search engines, they all rely somewhat on either Google's or Bing's web crawling: Qwant, Bing and Brave, Google (and Bing for images). This is easy to see as a webmaster since you don't see their crawlers much (if at all). Only Google and Bing are doing full scale web crawls. However, search is a lot more than traditional web links -- in fact it is about half now from instant answers that can come from dozens of sources and indexes (which the above comment gets into).

parent yegg 4 years ago

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