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This is not charity. Google needs DDG to exist, because Google is a monopoly. That economic reality is increasingly translating into political calls for GOOG to
by kevmo 8y ago
This is not charity. Google needs DDG to exist, because Google is a monopoly. That economic reality is increasingly translating into political calls for GOOG to be broken up. Supporting DDG is just Google preparing for future legal and legislative/regulatory battles. They can point to DDG and say, "Look! There is another search company!"
Google also probably accelerated this potential action to this week because they're taking so much heat and needed positive press.
- ars 8y ago> Google needs DDG to exist DDG is just a frontend to Bing. They need Bing to exist, not DDG.
- duckit 8y agoWhatever
- brokensegue 8y agois that literally true? I thought not
- Kiro 8y agoIt's true. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18664967 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18664967
- tombert 8y agoI thought DDG had its own indexer as well, and aggregated from several sources, including Bing.
- Kiro 8y agoTheir own crawler is only used for widgets and stuff. All the organic results are from Bing and Yahoo. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18664967 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18664967