First, DDG includes (mostly) other companies' services like HN, WolframAlpha, etc. It doesn't compete with them, it's closer to prerendering in Chrome.
Plenty of them are builtin and/or part of DuckDuckGo hack. And even for others, it's pretty different from just prerendering. They are choosing a single site to display data from. Is it really different if Google makes a partnership without some site(s) and kills off everyone else? Why?
Second, I argued in other comment that Google Search is, for many users, a standard, and DDG must follow it or be left behind.
Except in this case, Google is the one behind, since DDG has many more special queries than them.
Plenty of them are builtin and/or part of DuckDuckGo hack. And even for others, it's pretty different from just prerendering. They are choosing a single site to display data from. Is it really different if Google makes a partnership without some site(s) and kills off everyone else? Why?
Second, I argued in other comment that Google Search is, for many users, a standard, and DDG must follow it or be left behind.
Except in this case, Google is the one behind, since DDG has many more special queries than them.