[monroeclinton]

Between using Bing and now OpenAI, is DuckDuckGo just a middle man for using Microsoft products? I wish they would use their capital and resources to build a novel product. It seems their main selling point is they have my payment information instead of Microsoft.

[ziddoap]

Their main point has always been to be a condom between people and companies like Google, Microsoft, etc. Not just payment information, but other tracking and data as well. I think that's a fine niche for them to be in.

What products would you like to see them to build?

[hellcow]

… search?

Look how much better Kagi’s results are, owed to them layering their own filtering and indexes on top of Google’s.

[ziddoap]

>… search?

Search alone doesn't seem to be very profitable. Look at how many different products Kagi is rolling out just to capture more paying users.

DDG would have to be create an even better search than Kagi. I don't think this is the obvious (or easy) way forward. It sounds expensive and risky.

[ravedave5]

There's definitely value in providing that anonymizing layer. People pay plenty for VPNs.

[tmottabr]

This IA chat does not have anything from Microsoft other then having the option to use ChatGPT model that is the same one Microsoft used to build Bing Chat..

But it offer several more models as options to choose from, some even open source and not related OpenIA..