Where is your evidence for that? It used to be Bing and Yandex, but now it’s just Bing. They use other non search engine APIs and do a small amount of crawling AFAIK. Details of who uses what here: seirdy.one/…/search-engines-with-own-indexes/
Comment on Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results
QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks agoThat’s technically true, but it’s as misleading as saying they get their search results from Yandex. Their results are aggregated from several search engines, not just Bing. They also have their own web crawler, DuckDuckBot, which absolutely respects RobotRules.
ColinHayhurst@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
There’s an article from this spring’s 2600 magazine that claims it’s all Bing results. I haven’t dug through their Python code and I’m definitely no expert anyway, but I’d also prefer not to post an article from a small independent magazine like that to let the people on Lemmy who do know more than me take a look.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
Fair point.