<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>WhitneyLand</author><text>DDG is a great success story, I wish the whole team the best.&lt;p&gt;I wonder how an exit will play out though.  A big factor with DDG is user trust - that seems to limit the list potential buyers to the few that could credibly maintain that trust.&lt;p&gt;Then there is the IPO route, but that has it&amp;#x27;s own challenges.  You could argue that up until now DDG has had no competition because Google doesn&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s worth raising its hand to swat a fly.  But there is no flying under the radar after an IPO.  What if Google promoted a new &amp;quot;no track&amp;quot; feature which matched DDGs benefits without having to do dumb things like append query arguments, modify location, and run plugins?&lt;p&gt;You might say Google would never give up this much tracking control, but there are two caveats.  First, if it&amp;#x27;s just an option buried in settings there will be limited uptake yet DDG&amp;#x27;s ability to claim differentiation would be nullified.  Secondly, as DDG itself says, search can still be a great business without having to track people.&lt;p&gt;If I were lucky enough to be in DDGs position I would push for a Microsoft acquisition.  MS has kept enough promises in recent years that they just may be able provide DDG users enough guarantees to maintain the trust.  People have mentioned Apple but that seems like a lower probability for a variety of reasons.  An MS deal would avoid the massive hassle of an IPO and enough resources to chip away at Google indefinitely without being pressured into short term decisions.&lt;p&gt;For now I&amp;#x27;m just glad DDG is here trying to do some good.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AdamSC1</author><text>For the team here at DuckDuckGo, we were excited not only to hit 14M searches in a single day but to also cross the threshold of 10B total private searches served. Of which 4B were from last year alone.&lt;p&gt;We wrote a post covering it in our newly launched blog:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;spreadprivacy.com&amp;#x2F;10-billion-fc7808c91343&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;spreadprivacy.com&amp;#x2F;10-billion-fc7808c91343&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is always an amazing and humbling moment when we hit a new milestone in our metrics. Our team is so incredibly passionate about what we do.  To have people from all over the world rally around this concept of raising the standard of trust online and build this product is one thing. But, for users to endorse that mission at such a growing pace and to share us with their friends and family -- it lets us know we&amp;#x27;re truly making a difference for people who want to be more private online, and that is incredibly rewarding.&lt;p&gt;So thank you, to all of you who search with us, all of you who know privacy matters, and all of you who work along side us to show that privacy is not a fringe interest but something we can all have!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day</title><url>https://www.searchenginejournal.com/duckduckgo-hits-milestone-14-million-searches-single-day/184179/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>libraryatnight</author><text>Thank you for a great search engine! I swapped from Google as a default search to your guys&amp;#x27; engine just shy of a year ago and haven&amp;#x27;t looked back. Keep up the great work :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>AdamSC1</author><text>For the team here at DuckDuckGo, we were excited not only to hit 14M searches in a single day but to also cross the threshold of 10B total private searches served. Of which 4B were from last year alone.&lt;p&gt;We wrote a post covering it in our newly launched blog:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;spreadprivacy.com&amp;#x2F;10-billion-fc7808c91343&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;spreadprivacy.com&amp;#x2F;10-billion-fc7808c91343&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is always an amazing and humbling moment when we hit a new milestone in our metrics. Our team is so incredibly passionate about what we do.  To have people from all over the world rally around this concept of raising the standard of trust online and build this product is one thing. But, for users to endorse that mission at such a growing pace and to share us with their friends and family -- it lets us know we&amp;#x27;re truly making a difference for people who want to be more private online, and that is incredibly rewarding.&lt;p&gt;So thank you, to all of you who search with us, all of you who know privacy matters, and all of you who work along side us to show that privacy is not a fringe interest but something we can all have!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day</title><url>https://www.searchenginejournal.com/duckduckgo-hits-milestone-14-million-searches-single-day/184179/</url></story>