NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies
In related news, DuckDuckGo has seen a huge spike in traffic (<a href="https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html" rel="nofollow">https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html</a>). Even if the NSA has probably circumvented DDG's privacy features, it's still worth using them for <i>trying</i> to preserve user privacy. And in my experience, DDG's search results have improved drastically, to the point that I very rarely have to resort to Google.