A Web crawler, sometimes called a spider or spiderbot and often shortened to crawler, is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web and that is typically operated by search engines for the purpose of Web indexing.
DDG operates a crawler just like that which is a characteristic of a search engine.
A search engine is defined by Webster as
computer software used to search data (such as text or a database) for specified information
also : a site on the World Wide Web that uses such software to locate key words in other sites
Which is what DDG is and does. How is DDG not a search engine?
It does that, too, yes. But as I mentioned above it in fact does have its own web crawler and search algorithm, just like other search engines.
It combines the results which makes DDG technically a true search engine, even though it improves its results by utilizing other search enignes, too.
Shall we agree to this?
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Hang on, I’m really trying to understand.
According to Wikpedia,
DDG operates a crawler just like that which is a characteristic of a search engine.
A search engine is defined by Webster as
Which is what DDG is and does. How is DDG not a search engine?
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That would mean pretty much none of the search engines on this list are search engines
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It does that, too, yes. But as I mentioned above it in fact does have its own web crawler and search algorithm, just like other search engines. It combines the results which makes DDG technically a true search engine, even though it improves its results by utilizing other search enignes, too. Shall we agree to this?
On one hand, you’ve provided sourced information with supporting details, and I’ve also successfully used DDG as a search engine.
On the other hand, ultratiem on Lemmy says it’s not a search engine, so I don’t know who to believe…