Watching this makes me realize that we don't need new regulations... we need new leaders... leaders who can compete and are knowledgeable on a global scale.
No such thing can exist in a world of seven billion people. If your model of government requires that, it is doomed to absolute failure. The correct answer is to decentralize more and reduce our need for "leaders" in general.
Sniff a big lawsuit in the making - sounds like their might be an illegal search and seizure going on here - BIG RIGHTS VIOLATION.
I believe this is a strict liability case - meaning - would the normal guy think that his rights were being violated and he was the victim of an illegal search?
In what capacity were the cops and everyone involved identified at the time of the 'crime'? Should they have gotten a warrant? I definitely want to know what kind of documentation was taken - sounds to me like a good old fashion ILLEGAL police state shake up?
10 years is too far out for me to speculate. In 5 years, I'd like to see us have significant market share on desktop, mobile and tablet. To get there you'll see us focus on the things we've been focusing on, i.e. working with partners and our own indexes to deliver way more and better instant answers from a variety of sources; way less spam; real privacy; and a simpler UX.
That is exactly why I love DDG. I almost never get spam, but the fact that you want to make it even better is so awesome. Seriously, DDG's killer feature is a founder interacts with the users.
In other words, how much fun are you having, and how long is that going to last?
EDIT: A legitimate question, as Gabriel has cited fun as one of the perks of going DDG. How are people reading this as a negative comment/question? It was meant as a prompt to respond to the parent.
It's really both. To the extent that people are switching to us from Google, that is clearly competition and our goal is to get people to use us as their primary search engine. However, a lot of what we do is very complementary to people who have a general crawl.
Surely it's un-funded. Then they'd make money because you go to the till having ordered 30 coffees and "oh look" no money on that card, cough up $120 (or whatever).
