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otterleyyesterday at 9:18 PM2 repliesview on HN

Nope. Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, and Kagi all have more-or-less complete indices. There's no moat around scraping the public Web.


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neodymiumphishyesterday at 10:39 PM

I’m a Kagi user, but I understood this recent post by the Kagi team to mean that they do not index the web themselves and that it’s nearly impossible for them to do so.

https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search

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xnxyesterday at 9:32 PM

Ddg has a miniscule index, and that exists mainly just to say they have one.