[bamboozled]

I recently spoke with Gabriel and his view was that they're going to continue to outsource / proxy / aggregate unless they need to implement their own search. Right now it's not worth the investment apparently.

[Sargos]

Yeah because Search is an actual hard problem and putting up a proxy like DDG is not. DDG will never have any real value beyond that.

[bamboozled]

IDK, if it ain't broke don't fix it.

Also the system in place for aggregation isn't just Nginx, it actually does things, like bangs.

[FabHK]

Eliminating tracking of your searches is not valuable?

[Sargos]

I said value beyond that. That meaning the privacy proxy.

[moduspol]

That seems reasonable if the goal is privacy, right?

I mean, even if they were literally proxying to anonymized Google results, wouldn't that cover the privacy benefit?

[mousa]

It would make it hard to pretend that the DDG results were much better than those irrelevant Google results that more fanatical Googlephobes insist they get.