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Without the personal information being recorded and sold. Kind of goes to show that the personal information we are giving away may not be that important when
by addicted 8y ago
Without the personal information being recorded and sold.
Kind of goes to show that the personal information we are giving away may not be that important when it comes to finding what we need, even as it makes us a bigger and juicier target for ads.
- mda 8y agoYet still it is Bing search + Bing ads.
- mrweasel 8y agoDuckDuckGo do have their own crawler, how much it’s used I don’t know.
- mda 8y agoMy guess, <1%. I would be happy to be refuted with real data. Creating and maintaining a global scale high quality search engine requires a huge team with billion dollar level resources. They have neither, for now.
- puzzle 8y agoIf you want to know how much of a real, self-sufficient search engine it is, just look at the hardware footprint. You need a lot of computing and storage just for the crawling and indexing (webspam included), let alone the serving.
- tombert 8y agoGabriel Weinberg's email is public; you could probably just email him and ask.
- torstenvl 8y agoExpressing cynicism and demanding to be proven wrong is not an effective argument strategy. If your goal is to convince others, you should collect the data yourself and share it with them.
- mda 8y agoApparently they only use this data for simple question and answer queries, because they do not disclose breakdown of query types i can not certainly know the numbers, and i made an optimistic guess. Also i don't think my points regarding building a real search engine were unfair. Do you disagree with any of these? I express cynicism because of lack on transparency on their side.