Absolutely, but search alone won't cut it no matter how smart it is. For profitability you need a whole ecosystem where ads is a major revenue source. DuckDuck

Absolutely, but search alone won't cut it no matter how smart it is. For profitability you need a whole ecosystem where ads is a major revenue source. DuckDuckGo is a fine search engine and I believe they'd benefit a lot from services like ads, email, blogs, docs, shops, apps, social, etc.