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Eh. DDG and other search engines exist, and all Google has gained is that the entire rest of the search world (as well as button makers, context link creators, RSS, bookmarkers etc) have to drop them because the URLs don't actually resolve to results and are indistinguishable from phishing functionally speaking; meaning Google won't even get people's search results by proxy now.
Now, if all other big search providers do this and engines like DDG have to drop them, we'll reach a new golden age, where new and more ethical search providers can enter the playfield and start without a big disadvantage.