I doubt that this is linked to duckduckgo, but it was just an example to avoid even more that has to be maintained. However, of course, the question of how far such an approach can fulfill the compliance requirements of Fedora remains open. Btw, a traceroute to docs.fedoraproject.org also ends up at AWS ; )
I could agree on that approach At least we can agree that something has to be done, may it be SEO or a search function.
This is already discussed on Discussing Fedora Docs website improvement