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by mgreg 6y ago
DDG has a deal with Amazon. All product searches show Amazon up above with payment for that. Not sure if it's exclusive or if DDG has deals with other eCommerce players.
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by mgreg 6y ago
I believe Startpage.com still has a deal with Google to repackage their search results. The search results are identical so not sure what terms Google puts on them.
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by mgreg 6y ago
That's a great argument for a more diverse set of search competitors, especially with their own index. Imagine if we had 10 viable search engines rather than just the 1 (or 1.5) we currently have. With multiple ranking algorithms a S
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by mgreg 6y ago
Have you looked at https://curlie.org/ (successor to DMOZ)? What problem do you think directory websites solve that search doesn't?
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by mgreg 6y ago
Interesting idea. Given the disappearance of RSS feeds in many places perhaps there's demand for a service that converts email newsletters to an RSS feed (receive the email, publish it via RSS). Could be a new feature for an exiting
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by mgreg 6y ago
There's also some data coming out of Wuhan around antibody testing. The methodology is not as well formed as the study in the OP but there is still value in the data. > Wuhan’s Zhongnan Hospital found that 2.4% of its employees and
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by mgreg 6y ago
Wired published a well researched article a short while ago laying out the arguments in a little more persuasive manner. https://www.wired.com/story/why-dont-we-just-ban-targeted-ad...
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Infected people without symptoms might be driving the spread of coronavirus(cnn.com)
20 points by mgreg 7y ago|11 comments
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by mgreg 7y ago
Sounds like they were "top grading" which is a interviewing technique promoted, among other places, in the "Who" book. (see https://whothebook.com/ ). An internet search will turn up the gist of what the
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by mgreg 7y ago
While that is true - a consumer must take action to protect their individual information - it may be that if enough people do this that the cost of compliance (responding to the ccpa requests) will make it less profitable to hold on to a co
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by mgreg 7y ago
Thank you for the additional detail and this certainly appears to be a challenging problem. It is still a little fuzzy to me. What is a "synthetic query"? Is this basically generating queries that would match the content (i.e. ess
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by mgreg 7y ago
They talk about using query logs to optimize their search results: >Queries performed by people, if associated to a web page, serve as even cleaner summaries than anchor text. This is because all the logic put in place by the search engi
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DOJ issues warning to big tech: Data and privacy could be competition concerns(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by mgreg 7y ago|0 comments
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‘Silicon Valley,’ S6E2 – a billion dollars to violate your principles(padailypost.com)
68 points by mgreg 7y ago|53 comments
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by mgreg 7y ago
I'm going to have to agree with the author here. Defining what is "normal" or acceptable levels of privacy or tracking has become one of several battlefields in the world of privacy. An orthogonal but related idea that is of
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by mgreg 7y ago
No, it designed for email so there's not a public web site for the news itself but it wouldn't be too difficult to make. As I mentioned, however, this is a moribund service :)
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by mgreg 7y ago
I'd second Techmeme for tech news aggregation; great site and now with a newsletter too. I actually built a general news aggregation newsletter inspired by Techmeme too ( http://enclude.com ) which uses ML to group the leadin
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by mgreg 7y ago
This makes sense but I'm guessing there are diminishing returns that may actually turn negative at some point. I.e. How much more likely is someone who watches 21 hours vs 20 hours to be retained? Then how much more likely is someone
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by mgreg 7y ago
And if you wanted to place an ad online to say, reach everyone in the US of driving age (car ad), or in Toronto during an NBA game (Pizza ad) what are all your options?
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by mgreg 7y ago
And if you wanted to place an ad online to say, reach everyone in the US of driving age (car ad), or in Toronto during an NBA game (Pizza ad) what are all your options?
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by mgreg 7y ago
Appreciate you're sharing some of these details (thank you). I have been thinking about this same basic idea but with hydrogen and fuel cells but will need to evaluate the merits of electricity -> gasoline vs. electricity -> hyd
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by mgreg 7y ago
Like anything you will need to focus on your differentiation and doing what others cannot or will not do. For instance Google requires you to bring your data to them (GCP). In many cases it may be better/easier to move the compute ra
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by mgreg 8y ago
The subscription based services (News, Games) are an important step forward but don't do enough to change things meaningfully for game developers and news publishers. On the plus side Apple relieves the burden of managing an ad ecosys
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California Governor Proposes Digital Dividend Aimed at Big Tech(bloomberg.com)
1 points by mgreg 8y ago|0 comments
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by mgreg 8y ago
Link to AWS page: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/vmware/ Interesting. Does this signal that AWS believes some enterprise workloads will remain in private DCs? This is certainly a big value to those running on-prem d
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by mgreg 8y ago
It doesn't seem that hard to comply. From the article: "...the bill would allow California residents to find out what information businesses and data brokers collect about them, where that information comes from, and how it'
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California Privacy Bill would reign in Silicon Valley information brokers power(wired.com)
47 points by mgreg 8y ago|18 comments
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Drive.ai launching self-driving service in Texas(medium.com)
2 points by mgreg 8y ago|0 comments
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by mgreg 9y ago
You're correct but this tidbit also exposes the article's limited scope. It's sweeping the cost of public transportation under the rug and then providing unsubstantiated opinion on the "adverse impact" of the thing
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by mgreg 9y ago
Interesting dive into the tax code. I wonder how the article would have read if the author researched the amount of subsidies that go into public transportation. Public transport subsidies are a very material portion of most city budgets

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