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BCM43 on March 4, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Duck Duck Go's traffic has tripled in 2012

Serious question: Why would you want your search engine to be run by the same company that runs your email and cloud documents?

moondowner on March 4, 2012 [–]

To provide better search results?

lookelsewhere on March 5, 2012 | [–]

The answer is, you wouldn't if you're concerned about privacy. DDG delivers decent enough results and part of their philosophy is that they claim not to track users.

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