>As it stands, they should append this to the end:
>"but the architecture of our site lets Amazon log it."
This is the best suggestion yet. Of course there are numerous hacks possible to make it more secure, but each one at the cost of user experience. DDG has so many things going for it, I don't think for the majority of users security is at the top of their list.
Do a http redirect to a url which has an encrypted version of the search term in the url parameters before displaying the search results. That fixes the problem without hitting the user experience.
>"but the architecture of our site lets Amazon log it."
This is the best suggestion yet. Of course there are numerous hacks possible to make it more secure, but each one at the cost of user experience. DDG has so many things going for it, I don't think for the majority of users security is at the top of their list.