well, this isn't something that I have given that much thought... But yes, when I go to ddg and type in "!g <thing>" after having typed in "<thing>", I'm on so

well, this isn't something that I have given that much thought... But yes, when I go to ddg and type in "!g <thing>" after having typed in "<thing>", I'm on some level hoping that this is somehow informing ddg that their search results for <thing> could be better. Now, if they have somewhere stated that they are not going to do this, then yes, it would be bad.