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   by mda 8y ago

   Good luck finding people who are 2 of these, and it is not possible to judge people with existing limited interview processes. This list is impossible.
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   by mda 8y ago

   Trusting Bing, Yandex and Baidu for politically sensitive topics? Are you being sarcastic?
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   by mda 8y ago

   Chrome forked webkit 5 years ago, it is now called blink and they are already quite different architecturally.
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   by mda 8y ago

   A browser has many other parts than rendering engine. So it is not fair to say Chrome is derived from webkit or safari. You can say chrome rendering engine was initially based on webkit which was based on khtml. And today that shared parts
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   by mda 8y ago

   Sure they allstand on the shoulders of giants, however you are mixing technologies a little bit. A browser is a lot more than an html engine, there is almost nothing left from khtml in either Chrone or Safari.
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   by mda 8y ago

   You imply they do this deliberately, do you have any evidence? It sounds super unlikely to me.
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   by mda 8y ago

   I dont think Apple employees can do such a thing anyway. Profile of companies and employees are quite different.
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   by mda 8y ago

   What data is sold to advertisers?
9. 669.▲
   by mda 8y ago

   It is not removed.
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    by mda 8y ago

    To me biggest reason is security. multiple options gives at least some escape route if one engine screws up. Other is breaking standards, but so far this doesn't seem to be a big issue because of the open nature of blink / webkit.
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    by mda 8y ago

    I hear this often but usually lacks explanation, can you elaborate?
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    by mda 8y ago

    plus they really sell themelves as the all gloriuos knight, savior of people from evils of big bad wolf. Fine, but who is actually under the shiny helmet? Answer is not that glorious. The knight is just a puppet.
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    by mda 8y ago

    Yes they do, mostly bing + yahoo and yandex. Do they give which percentage of backends they use for any non trivial search?
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    by mda 8y ago

    There is almost nothing left of it for years.
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    by mda 8y ago

    So its 95% bing/yahoo. I wish they were more transparent. But it does not sound nice when they say do not useevilgoogle instead use our slightly modified bing/yahoo wrapper.
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    by mda 8y ago

    I think they sometimes mix yandex, yahoo and other stuff as well. There is a reason they never disclose what percentage of queries are served from which source, kinda spoils their magic i guess. Kudos to bing team though, they seem to impro
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    by mda 8y ago

    Did you try your own sentence "floating point operations that can produce NaN." "Making nan"is a very tricky query, because it has no context that is related to floating point. I think it is not fair to expect anything
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    by mda 8y ago

    You mean they don't already explain it? Please.
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    by mda 8y ago

    Why would it matter, models are regenerated frequently, from millions, billions of other data.
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    by mda 8y ago

    So DDG aka (bing / yandex) is better for double quotes.. maybe, but it could also be just an illusion, try same queries there and see.
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    by mda 8y ago

    I hear this sometimes but have never seen anyone giving proper examples of it.Which queries were answered better before, or by other engines? It is always vague.
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    by mda 8y ago

    They don't. But welcome to HN Where conspiracy is more prevalent then truth.
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    by mda 8y ago

    How is Chrome user hostile?
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    by mda 8y ago

    I used Chrome since its early alpha versions on Linux, and I have to disagree. Even in its first days Chrome was a far superior browser speed, responsiveness and security wise. Firefo caught on some of these nowadays, but not nearly e ough
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    by mda 8y ago

    So many conspiracy theories. When did HN become this hysterical...
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    by mda 8y ago

    "And so that is why Google won't stop. Because there's no reason to." I completely disagree, look at what happened to project Maven.
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    by mda 8y ago

    You know that you can delete, opt in/out to most of that information right. One click, boom.
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    by mda 8y ago

    Examples?
29. 689.▲
    by mda 8y ago

    So zero proof just hand waving.
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    by mda 8y ago

    Any proof of your claims? By law, If they say they do not, they do not.