Many "alternative" search tools such as DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Qwant, and Swisscows rely either fully or in part on Bing's search index. I explored some of the downstream effects of the Bing dependencies in a 2022 article (and experienced them first-hand when my site was de-indexed by Bing for much of 2023).

https://thenewleafjournal.com/importance-of-bing-indexing-for-alt-search/

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