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I'm quite sure they used to use google in the past > Why can't DDG just cut their losses and invest in building their own index? That's far from trivial task.

by mikkom 15y ago

I'm quite sure they used to use google in the past > Why can't DDG just cut their losses and invest in building their own index? That's far from trivial task.. Scraping and using other peoples results is easy, building and scaling a huge database like search index is one of the hardest problems you can find.

AznHisoka 15y ago
Ok that's fair. But in that case, I don't understand what compelling way DDG is differentiating themselves from other search engines besides a few cool, nice, thin value features.
- mikkom 15y ago
  .. that's almost exactly what I'm thinking too ..