Re:DuckDuckGo vs Google
by smt88 on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @08:25AM
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In this case, employee count is very relevant.
It might tell us how realistic scaling to the size of Google is, for example. I don't think it does, but it's an interest thought: could DDG manage Google's search traffic with ~1,000 employees (scaling linearly)? Could it do the same with fewer than that?
Re:DuckDuckGo vs Google
by dx034 on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @09:04AM
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A very small part of Google employees actually work on search. If google were to sell everything but the search division, they'd be a small company. The ad business and infrastructure are used by search but not the product.
It might tell us how realistic scaling to the size of Google is, for example. I don't think it does, but it's an interest thought: could DDG manage Google's search traffic with ~1,000 employees (scaling linearly)? Could it do the same with fewer than that?