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No. Google's OneBox, Ask’s Smart Answers, Microsoft’s Instant Answers, and Yahoo Shortcuts all existed at least two years before DDG was even founded in 2008.
by scholia 7y ago
No. Google's OneBox, Ask’s Smart Answers, Microsoft’s Instant Answers, and Yahoo Shortcuts all existed at least two years before DDG was even founded in 2008.
Also, DDG's "Instant Answers are open source and are maintained on GitHub, where anyone can build or work on them".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo
It's not the same sort of massive web-scraping click-stealing operation as Google's OneBox.