> Does anyone care about DDG anyway? The number of votes and comments tell me people on this forum do care. Personally, I care because DDG is doing something a

> Does anyone care about DDG anyway? The number of votes and comments tell me people on this forum do care. Personally, I care because DDG is doing something ambitious and competition is good(it helps keep people in line). Also, even if I didn't care, I don't see a reason why I should shit on someone's hard work. > They're trying to solve a completely imaginary problem, Privacy isn't an imaginary problem. > and they haven't got a hope in hell of creating a viable search engine as that costs billions of dollars. Creating one from scratch will take time and money, and no, as blekko folks pointed out, it didn't take them billions. But DDG uses bing apis augmented with custom index.