I fully agree. But in the original post the commenter is insinuating that DDG is bad because it is "just a hack using APIs" in stead of a search engine based on

I fully agree. But in the original post the commenter is insinuating that DDG is bad because it is "just a hack using APIs" in stead of a search engine based on the work of a "legion of brilliant programmers". Which results DDG is also using.