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I think that's possibly the case, but what I wonder is why they don't just buy DuckDuckGo. I've built a search engine, from scratch (Eg: before Lucene and Solr
by MCRed 11y ago
I think that's possibly the case, but what I wonder is why they don't just buy DuckDuckGo.
I've built a search engine, from scratch (Eg: before Lucene and Solr existed) it's not a trivial endeavor, and due to VC interference we lost to google... these days not only do you need the infrastructure technology (something that google, notably, is not open sourcing) but you need a decades worth of historical info from past crawls to train your systems.
EDIT: Ah, I see all of my comments are being downvoted, in a vindictive fashion.
I guess I should expect nothing less.
This site needs to reform itself. I'm signing off for awhile.
- pervycreeper 11y agoI downvoted this comment. Your claims that your startup could have been where Google is if it weren't for "VC interference", and that a search engine necessarily requires "decades worth of historical info from past crawls" are both of the sort that require at least some explanation beyond mere assertion.