Batu69 Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Search engine DuckDuckGo announced the extension of its partnership with Yahoo a moment ago that brings new features to all users of the search engine. The search engine has partnerships with several companies including Bing, Yandex or Wikipedia that power results or features on the site. The new partnership allows DuckDuckGo to introduce new features to the search engine. In particular, the following options are provided to all users: Options to use date filters to filter results by day, week or month. Implementation of site links to display additional links for popular sites and services. DuckDuckGo extends Yahoo partnership To filter by time period, click on the menu icon located at the top right of the search engine and then on the Anytime listing there near the top. This opens a new menu that you use to select day, week or month as the time period filter. It is unfortunately not possible right now to go beyond that, or select a custom range. Site links are displayed for select company websites or services only. While you find them listed for NASA for instance, no sitelinks are provided for Google, Microsoft or Apple. They link to points of interest on the site, and extend the site's listing in the search results significantly. The new functionality is not rolled out fully yet which may explain why you see site links for some sites but not for others. DuckDuckGo states that the full functionality will be available soon for all users. Privacy DuckDuckGo reassures that the extended partnership with Yahoo is in full accordance with the company's privacy policy, and here specifically that it won't share personal information with partners. Quote Of course, in accordance with our strict privacy policy, we do not share personal information with any partners, including Yahoo. To make this crystal clear, Yahoo has also published a privacy statement to the same effect. We're proud to work closely with a partner who is willing to work with us to protect your privacy. Yahoo released a statement of its own that confirms that the company does not receive unique identifiers of individuals when they run searches on DuckDuckGo. Quote Unless explicitly provided by users through the search queries themselves, Yahoo does not receive any unique identifiers of individuals conducting searches on DuckDuckGo. Yahoo does not attempt to identify individuals through their use of the DuckDuckGo search services. It does receive search queries and non-personally identifiable information in the context of providing search content though. Article source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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