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I mean, a probably more relevant summary of what DDG offers would be: Bing/Yahoo/Yandex mashup stripped out of personalized results + bangs + [until recently] community maintained instant answers. Edit: Worth pointing out: as far as I am aware, they're using all the other search engines with an agreement with those companies, which makes it completely okay in my book to credit them as the one. I credit my operating s…
> I credit my operating system to Canonical, even though the heavy lifting and behaving nicely on hardware is done by people contributing to Linux. Linux out of the box doesn't mean a thing to me. Bing out of the box doesn't mean a thing to me. DDG and Ubuntu do mean a lot to me. That's a dangerous comparison to make because there isn't really any consensus* on which part of the stack to name the OS. For example, Lin…
Canonical did a good thing of mashing it all together into a single product. DDG does the same for search in my book.
They've both outsourced the heavy lifting to some third party.
In DDG, Bing/Yahoo/Yandex does all of the heavy lifting. In Ubuntu, it's the Linux kernel. They would be nothing without those products they depend on. But they bundle that with like hundreds of different, smaller in scale products to offer a nice experience out of the box.
For smaller in scale companies that are trying to compete with big players (like Microsoft and Google), this does seem like a winning combination in my book.