[fullstacking]

Wow, first thank you. I mean you no disrespect as I do think DuckDuckGo is the better of the options. Sadly for me Microsoft is a big deal as I'm a Jew by ethnicity who takes great issue with the harm Israel has caused people in the name of my ancestors. For me anything that helps provide Microsoft any financial support is real a conflict of interest for me. That said these are my own personal issues and I don't expect other people to confirm to my own ethical views. Outside of that I'm also a programmer of 25+ years who has spent a great deal of my time watching Microsoft cause a great deal of harm to the industry. IDK about you, but I feel github has been hijacked, and don't get me started on all the tax dollars we have been spent on sharepoint type BS that can't seem do the basic requirements our governments / institutions have paid for. So yeah anything you can do to distance yourself from them would be something that makes me take a real look at duckduckgo again.

Aside my ranting about M$, if I may ask why go beyond web search, or put another way how do you not end up on the same path as google / bing going that path?