If that’s true, why bother “monitoring” a search engine? This whole list screams of somebody who knows nothing about tech put out a vague RFP and a contractor pulled a list of “top sites” and used it to justify an egregious proposal cost.
DOGE, if you’re looking for waste and fraud, perhaps here’s a good source.
They do it all to build up a huge web of interconnected data points. Duckduckgo itself they might take as evidence that someone is trying to hide something. Then the government goes to a FISA court and gets permission to have other tech companies hand over all your data. Its not any one site its the picture that can be gleamed from all the data available across all the sites.
If that’s true, why bother “monitoring” a search engine? This whole list screams of somebody who knows nothing about tech put out a vague RFP and a contractor pulled a list of “top sites” and used it to justify an egregious proposal cost.
DOGE, if you’re looking for waste and fraud, perhaps here’s a good source.
They do it all to build up a huge web of interconnected data points. Duckduckgo itself they might take as evidence that someone is trying to hide something. Then the government goes to a FISA court and gets permission to have other tech companies hand over all your data. Its not any one site its the picture that can be gleamed from all the data available across all the sites.