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But why prioritize this over building your own index and not relying on Microsoft?

• haswell 4y ago
  In terms of value to the end user, and a mission of expanding privacy-improving practices through their services, I can see why a feature like email protection would be prioritized over a proprietary index. While one may marginally improve some aspects of the service and has strategic value, the other actually moves the needle in terms of an end-user's overall privacy.
  • nr2x 4y ago
    What’s the point of email forwarding for a search engine that no longer has an index? Licensing Bing results is all of DDG business but a rounding error for Microsoft. That’s a very precarious positron to be in.
    • haswell 4y ago
      Email forwarding and search are orthogonal products solving different issues, so first, I’d point out that the value of the email forwarding service doesn’t change. But presumably DDG has contractual agreements with Microsoft so “no longer has an index” is a hypothetical that isn’t really grounded in reality or something that would be likely to happen without warning. And if Bing is no longer viable at some point for some reason, that would be a good reason to change the priority of building an index. But clearly DDG feels secure enough in their current agreement, and as of now, we have no reason to believe otherwise.