Hey @Zed, we’re aware of it, it’s a good piece that shows a good understanding of some problems which our work aims to raise awareness of and provide some solutions to i.e.
Many of the alternative and private search engines are nothing more than private proxies that deliver the same search results from the big players
This bit (as is called out by the title) was added somepoint this year along with Yandex - not so sure on their privacy practices, mind.
It’s a different way of viewing things, and one that we definitely like to see more writing on, a good answer to the question why would you build your own index instead of just using Bing?
We’ll have an update coming up pretty soon for Sven if he so cares to amend it, as we’ve got a billion on top of that figure and will soon be at 6bn 