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By hit counts, maybe, what about financially? What about employee count?

• StavrosK 9y ago
  Do you care if one company has two employees and one has a million to produce the exact same end result?
  • kowdermeister 9y ago
    > exact same end result Not really, but "exact same end result" is far from the current situation. And I'm not saying they shouldn't do it, rather that they really need to catch up. Google (not counting other Alphabet companies) does a lots of things. I think the original analogy is mostly right.
    • StavrosK 9y ago
      > "exact same end result" is far from the current situation My point can be rephrased as "given that the result is the same, do employee counts matter"? If not, then they don't matter in general.
  • smt88 9y ago
    In this case, employee count is very relevant. It might tell us how realistic scaling to the size of Google is, for example. I don't think it does, but it's an interest thought: could DDG manage Google's search traffic with ~1,000 employees (scaling linearly)? Could it do the same with fewer than that?
    • dx034 9y ago
      A very small part of Google employees actually work on search. If google were to sell everything but the search division, they'd be a small company. The ad business and infrastructure are used by search but not the product.
  • walterstucco 9y ago
    yes the second one is doomed