Re:Startpage is now owned by an advertising company
by joshuamorton on Sunday October 27, 2019 @07:32PM
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I'm making an entirely semantic argument that has nothing to do with Google in particular. I'm calling out bad reasoning on your part.
Startpage has an advantage over ddg because some people prefer Google search results.
Equally, ddg has an advantage over startpage because some people prefer being results or prefer to not use Google.
It doesn't matter if even a single person prefers Google to bing. For that single person, startpage has an advantage. The reverse of this is again, also true. Anecdotal evidence is, in this case, more than enough to justify the assertion.[0] That is, unless you're working under some unusually strong definition of advantage. Which I'll note you still haven't provided. Instead of, perhaps, saying "yes I don't consider a relative advantage that applies only to a potentially small group of people to be an advantage", you took the opportunity to make irrelevant attacks on my character.
[0]: if you want non anecdotal evidence though: both have users. This implies each has a relative advantage over the other to some subset of the population, otherwise one would take all the users from that other.
Startpage has an advantage over ddg because some people prefer Google search results.
Equally, ddg has an advantage over startpage because some people prefer being results or prefer to not use Google.
It doesn't matter if even a single person prefers Google to bing. For that single person, startpage has an advantage. The reverse of this is again, also true. Anecdotal evidence is, in this case, more than enough to justify the assertion.[0] That is, unless you're working under some unusually strong definition of advantage. Which I'll note you still haven't provided. Instead of, perhaps, saying "yes I don't consider a relative advantage that applies only to a potentially small group of people to be an advantage", you took the opportunity to make irrelevant attacks on my character.
[0]: if you want non anecdotal evidence though: both have users. This implies each has a relative advantage over the other to some subset of the population, otherwise one would take all the users from that other.