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DDG’s “product” is a privacy centric search. Once they get big why would they throw their product away and become like the competition? That simply does not mak
by davidhyde 8y ago
DDG’s “product” is a privacy centric search. Once they get big why would they throw their product away and become like the competition? That simply does not make any sense because the only reason why most people use them is the privacy aspect.
Good on Apple and DDG for realising that privacy has value and using that to grow their product.
- tyingq 8y agoBrin and Page pretty much say it's inevitable that a commerical search engine will succumb to "evil". The only solution they present is an academic/non-profit run search engine. http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html (scroll down to "Appendix A: Advertising and Mixed Motives")
- andrepd 8y agoThe owners of a commercial search engine say that it's inevitable that a commercial search engine will succumb to evil. Hmmm.
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- ezrast 8y agoNot to put too fine a point on it, they once said that - the linked paper from Brin and Page was published in 1998, when they were still students.
- tyingq 8y agoNotably, though, just a few months before they launched as a commercial operation.
- booleandilemma 8y agoReminds me of the Onion article: https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1819576527/amp https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-na...
- paradoxparalax 8y agoSorry for the offtopic, but Im interested in natural Language constructs like this way of using Hmmm. after a sentence. First I thought it was something from the Portuguese speakers, after more thinking I see maybe it is common of French speakers. Or maybe is common in the U.S. too, I have been there only few times. I found it very funny, and somewhat familiar. :ps: The wonders of having a search engine at anyone's hand.
- piyush_soni 8y agoSo you're not going to apply the "if it's free, you're the product" logic for DDG as well?
- setr 8y agoWell, the obvious reason is that it may not be possible to get “big” as a search engine, without chipping away at the privacy gaurantees. Even if they get the users, can they sufficiently monetize them without turning into google?
- mcv 8y agoWouldn't DDG be able to monetize their search engine by simply showing ads relevant to your current search? They don't have to store your search history to do that, and you still get the same privacy.