"literally every other global search engine that wants to offer a search product competitive with Google for mainstream users, needs to bootstrap with one or both of them."

I don't want to read too far into the specific wording, but you mentioned "bootstrap" and this feels like a good opportunity to ask the question. Is DDG planning or thinking about how it might move towards it's own index for general results? I feel like most of the criticism DDG receives these days is because it's backed by another, less privacy concerned, mega-corp. While it may not be something that's feasible today, and not in it's entirety, are there moves being made towards building an independent global web link index?