What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017)

Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017) by ashtonkem on Thursday May 28, 2020 @09:45AM (#23337140)

I wonder if that’s an OS specific thing. I find that nowadays I use Spotlight on OSX for math expressions, not Google.

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Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017) by Mirioron on Thursday May 28, 2020 @11:29AM (#23338447)

How does it compare to Wolfram Alpha in your opinion?

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Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017) by ashtonkem on Thursday May 28, 2020 @11:44AM (#23338620)

I never use WA, but I'm typically reaching for fairly basic math calculations that don't involve units. Last example was calculating an estimate cost of DynamoDB based on the peak RPS I'd found, which is just basic math with a lot of significant digits.

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Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017) by reaperducer on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:13PM (#23338989)

Siri draws answers from Wolfram Alpha, so maybe Spotlight does, as well.

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Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017) by saagarjha on Thursday May 28, 2020 @01:14PM (#23339824)

Spotlight uses a private framework for mathematical expressions called Calculate.framework. (Fun fact: it seems to be based on Bison.)

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