DuckDuckGo Wants Answers to Linux Questions

I'm a tad confused. What do they want us to do?

I'm not trying to be obtuse, I'm genuinely confused how to contribute :(

Ok, I think I see what they are attempting.

I like instant answers, but the DDG guys need to learn how to play nicely in this space. They are a search engine, not a content provider. One of the key issues I think sites have with Google at the moment is that if they start pulling in their data then people don't actually visit their page.

Wikipedia is a good example - it relies on contributions from the general public, and if people just get aggregated data packaged on the search engine that's great for the searcher, but not very good for the site. StackOverflow is another site that I could well see affected.

I'm not sure how this could be solved, but there needs to be a way for sites that rely on community engagement to get active participants, otherwise the unintentional consequences of this may be that they are adversely affected - or they might start competing more directly... Which is what the WMF tried to do, in the most ridiculously crack-handed way possible.

I'm starting to use DDG, you guys (I'm assuming you are from DDG?) have improved and you are more nimble and transparent. I'm hoping this big of feedback might lead to some thoughts and with a bit of creativity some sort of mechanism could be put into place to solve this.

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