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Google also has a chat bot: guru@googlelabs.com . Just add it to your contacts list and you can query it over XMPP.

this is not exactly the point.. the point is that DDG gives you now a free and "we don't track users" XMPP server that support federation...

Not to undervalue DDG, but the same service has been offered for years by those servers http://xmpp.net/

A "we don't track users" XMPP server?? Is this a thing?

In a world where tracking is the norm, we need to be reminded when places /aren't/ tracking

The assertion that Google tracks XMPP and uses it to target ads has no evidence.

Besides, use OTR with XMPP chat and it doesn't matter what the cloud provider says in their privacy policy.