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Building their own index is only worthwhile if they can build a good ranking algorithm to go along with it. And they're at a huge disdvantage in doing so because they don't track users to improve quality whereas Bing does.
it could be an open source project, i'd be interested
The ways you can interact with it currently are limited, but I think that'll improve.
This isn't just about the interface language and search results, but also about !bangs. To be useable !ebay has to use the the already available region setting.
Other than that I have been an advocate from the early days, because DDG is what the world needs.
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it could be an open source project, i'd be interested
You could start by playing around with this data: http://commoncrawl.org/ The ways you can interact with it currently are limited, but I think that'll improve.
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I agree, DDG is very cool. As I understood a while ago that Google tracks my search habits, I avoid using it. I went back to WebCrawler, Cuil, Altvista, Bing... None of these compare to DDG in terms of quality. Great job. It is time to get an alternative to Google. Don't be evil is just a silly marketing gag.
Does Bing not track your searches?
But, as I written, I did not check and don't want to spread rumors.
Brainwashed by GOOG :)
Great to see DDG gaining traction. However, I switched my Chrome search to DDG last year and the one thing that I realised I couldn't live without was maps. I didn't realise how often I must search for an address and to have location appear in search makes life so much easier. If you guys integrated with Openstreetmap, I'd switch back in an instant!
OSM integration would be nice, but I've found that DDG still has slightly inferior results to Google.
I do like the approach to privacy and occasionaly use it :)