Hister: A free & self-hosted personal search engine

It is quite simple. We know that Google uses your data and stores your searches to serve you personalized ads and tracks you around the web using their other products. DDG evidently does not do this. Not understanding how this is not obvious to you that without having all proof you can already see it is the better option. I really think your project is interesting but your take here is making me doubt you understand the topic enough to guard my data.