[mikkom]

I'm quite sure they used to use google in the past

> Why can't DDG just cut their losses and invest in building their own index?

That's far from trivial task.. Scraping and using other peoples results is easy, building and scaling a huge database like search index is one of the hardest problems you can find.

[AznHisoka]

Ok that's fair. But in that case, I don't understand what compelling way DDG is differentiating themselves from other search engines besides a few cool, nice, thin value features.

[mikkom]

.. that's almost exactly what I'm thinking too ..