Absolutely. Scale and diversity applies not only to ingested documents but users. I'm under no illusions that Google has said "here are a chunk of users who may want precise search, at a cost of X, but this other demographic can bring us revenue Y".
That's fine, it's their business, but it makes the virtual monopoly even more painful.
Sure but it would be nice to see DDG add a trivial usability feature like limiting search to the recent year before expecting them to address more challenging initiatives.
That's fine, it's their business, but it makes the virtual monopoly even more painful.