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Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by sansnomme on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @12:55AM (#22114989)
Because their business model is built on privacy and not necessarily search tech. See my previous comment on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22078338

In many ways they are more like a VPN company — a proxy for hire. If they want to expand, a good way would be to acquire Keybase or maybe something like https://bloom.sh and continue exploiting the inferior Google alternatives market.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by ramblerman on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @04:54AM (#22116078)
A business model implies making some sort of profit. How are they funding themselves currently?
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Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by soraminazuki on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @05:07AM (#22116138)
Contextual ads that don't spy on you. https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/ad...
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Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by bagacrap on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @01:18PM (#22120308)
That's less of a business model and more of a marketing campaign. As a business model, enhanced privacy sucks bc it yields reduced profits until the day a significant portion of the money-spending population decides to make decisions based on privacy.
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