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Amongst others, Blekko also provides results for them on occasion (disclaimer I work for Blekko)



Isn't Blekko also powered by Bing? It had the same result for hiybbprqag.


Actually no, we've got our own multi-billion page index, however we do farm out the long tail stuff (like hiybbpraqag :-). At some point I should get a blog post up about modern web indexes, its really fascinating to look at the relevance curves of the first few billion pages out to the first trillion page mark.


> hiybbpraqag

That just gets farmed out to google ;)




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