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Being successfully might not mean being at the top of the pyramid. DDG is a an example of a successful search engine. Further, they don't have to be better tha
by udkl 7y ago
Being successfully might not mean being at the top of the pyramid. DDG is a an example of a successful search engine.
Further, they don't have to be better than google in the quality of their search results. As soon as the results have good relevance, it's good competition.
What matters is that they are 'good enough', that there is a hint of competition to the Google-Bing monopoly. Offering privacy centric 'competition' is what they say their main aim is and what their success should be judged upon.
- mda 7y agoDDG is not a real search engine, I think this project is way more impressive than DDG.
- colejohnson66 7y agoDDG absolutely is a search engine; It’s a system (engine) that lets you search. From Wikipedia[0]: > A web search engine or Internet search engine is a software system that is designed to carry out web search (Internet search), which means to search the World Wide Web in a systematic way for particular information specified in a textual web search query. Just because they don’t do the crawling like Google and Bing doesn’t mean they aren’t a search engine. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine
- palerdot 7y agoThis is tautology. In that case, everyone can just put up their own html page with a search box, proxying the results from Google or Bing, and can claim that they have built a search engine ...
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