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Re:Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on Duckduck... by t0mbstone on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @12:24PM (#24273009)
If it runs the query through DDG's server side, then Google would just see at as an anonymous query along with a million other anonymous queries coming from DuckDuckGo's servers.

Unfortunately, that's NOT what they do. Instead, they just forward you to the google search result, which is pointless and stupid.

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Re:Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on Duckduck... by FabHK on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @05:39PM (#24276470)
> which is pointless and stupid

Not so. The point is that you can set DDG to be your default search engine, and put !g anywhere in the search string to search google in case you need it.

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Re:Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on Duckduck... by unicodepepper on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @01:17PM (#24273632)
I imagine that Google would not be happy if they ever were to offer such a proxy service.
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