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Duck duck go simply proxies other search engines. While they have been gaining traffic, they will never be as good as google/bing etc.

Good privacy focused search requires novel innovations and a solid attempt to "solve" the problem rather than simply wrapping some other engine.



They should have some small team working on their own search engine. A handful of skilled programmers can accomplish a lot over a couple of years.


Do we know that they don't?




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