The most worrying aspect about @DuckDuckGo is that they have venture capital. So they are going to exit. The only question that matters is “who will they be sold to?” Will it be Google, a Chinese consortium, or to the public (an IPO).
It’s a stopgap for now.
Also see @QwantCom https://twitter.com/ekaitz_zarraga/status/1006840804109897729 …
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If you are talking about search results then Duck couldn't exist without Bing, Yahoo? Startpage has other funding sources like StartMail.
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Am I mistaken in thinking the Duck has its own crawler/engine? (Will read up on it.)
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Hey Brian, so is FindX the only search engine at the moment that does its own crawls? It would be good to be able to support/contribute to one (afaik FindX is closed source, right?) We should chat again soon.
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Hey Aral - We have our own crawler and index. Qwant also, afaik primarily indexing french. We are Open Source https://get.findx.com/open-source/ - but centralized - hasn't cracked that one yet, but we're working on the "decentralized ranking" feature - Would love to show it to you.
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