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I like DDG, but this is strange rhetoric. DDG is as much for-profit as Google. It's not *fighting back", it's trying to make a profit by trying to position itself in a way that's different from Google and in a way that it's hoping is compelling. So far, it's mostly failing at that and only serves a niche population. A growing one, though.

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>> it's trying to make a profit by trying to position itself in a way that's different from Google and in a way that it's hoping is compelling

Looks like DDG is "fighting back" the right for people to have privacy online.

This is what is compelling, to me, about DDG. It isn't the profit that bugs me about Google, it is the data collection. It isn't even that I think Google is doing anything nefarious with that data, but the difference is that I'm giving something to Google and not to DDG and DDG's results are good enough to not warrant giving Google anything (i.e. DDG works great for >90% of my searches).

Agreed - although we should still heavily support the alternatives because a healthy ecosystem for search does not mean having one near-monopoly.

I'd rather have two companies fighting for search results instead of one. There's a sense of choice.

> It's not *fighting back", it's trying to make a profit by trying to position itself in a way that's different from Google and in a way that it's hoping is compelling.

In that case, please start a Google/DDG competitor that's just as good and uses a non-profit model. I'll happily use your service.

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