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Most people would not care, once a brand name is established it can sell out and continue to profit for at least 20 years or more. Proof is just about any footwear or fashion brand you care to think of.
People specifically use DDG for the sense of privacy they have established, and that works be shattered by a buyout. People who use DDG are savvy enough to change their default search engine, and therefore would not have trouble doing it again.
I agree, the original cohort of users may fit your description though.
Pretty cool! I use Brave Search ( https://search.brave.com ) and it too got AI results a few months ago. They're quite helpful!
Fine, but this is a full chat interface rather than AI search results.
Pretty disapointed that this is just a proxy in front of Claude and ChatGPT, I thought it would be some kind of DDG-hosted llama3 8B since the quality is now good enough with a 8B model.
We plan to add more models over time.
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See https://duckduckgo.com/aichat/privacy-terms " We do not save or store your Prompts or Outputs. Additionally, all metadata that contains personal information (for example, your IP address) is obfuscated from underlying model providers (for example, OpenAI, Anthropic). If you submit personal information in your Prompts, it may be reproduced in the Outputs, but no one can tell whether it was you personally submittin…
That’s a pretty disingenuous framing. Obviously the content of the communication- what you ask the chatbot - can totally be personally identifiable, and is stored. You aren’t providing communications content privacy, you’re providing a meta data proxy which is not remotely the same.
What else should they call it? I suppose "anonymous" could work (i.e. they only know about you what you tell them).
I didn't know Claude until I saw it as an option for DDG chat model. What caught my attention was the tagline "instant". Interesting. I decided to give it a try with expectations to see answers coming up almost instantly. And they really did. I'm enjoying it so far.
Interesting they use the word 'private' in their strapline, after all they frame themselves as private search albeit they don't have their own search engine and market themselves as a privacy search engine. Their index is essentially Bing and they're hosted on Microsoft IPs. So not exactly ideal.
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The messaging could be more clear, but is this substantively different from how search queries are handled when DuckDuckGo forwards them to Bing? Bing doesn’t know who made the search but could log the query itself.
> is this substantively different from how search queries are handled when DuckDuckGo forwards them to Bing? No, it is the exact same business model but applied to AI chat instead of search.