fmendez

I'm not what's more disturbing. The fact that it secured 1.2M or the mental gymnastics that people are doing to justify the existence of this app.

It seems to me that the fitting thing to be issued here is an apology, not a pardon.

Exactly, I think what we might be needing is a non-US (perhaps Iceland or NZ) based alternative. The moment, duckduckgo becomes relevant enough (i.e significant traffic) then is game over IMO.

I'm not sure if i missed something when I initially read about the startup Chile program, but i don't quite remember the documents stating they only wanted US entrepreneurs, am i wrong?

I would have agreed with your argument about not lowering the price if your offering is superior, but aren't we talking about a very poor country? doesn't Google have enough $$ to make a concession? (I'm not talking about giving the service for free just low enough to match competition).