[esbwhat]

Can I ask you why you see DDG as the perfect alternative to google? One would think that if you are concerned with the sort of things google is doing, you would bank on an open source search engine, so this sort of thing doesn't just repeat itself.

[LukeShu]

I have both YaCy and Seeks (distributed open source search engines) in my FF search bar, but the results are really... disappointing. I just get good results with DDG.

DDG's commitment to privacy and not bubbling, etc. I do not believe are going away, it's their biggest selling point.

Besides, as long as RMS is demanding that DDG be the default search engine in the GNU web browser, it's good enough for me.

[gee_totes]

Because there is less typing to do searches. As a developer, I only have a limited number of keystrokes in me before I run out and die.