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Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017) by MaxBarraclough on Thursday May 28, 2020 @09:54AM (#23337243)
> A 50-100 person team can do /almost/ as well as a 10,000 person team in the same domain. You spend a lot to go from 90% to 99% or 99% to 99.9%.

I'm reminded of how AMD's graphics division is a fraction of the size of nVidia.

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Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017) by systemBuilder on Thursday May 28, 2020 @11:17AM (#23338320)
Search is not ten thousand it is not even a thousand people. People don't realize that Google is actually double click add engine plus a relatively small search team; not 50 but less than 1000.
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Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017) by mcintyre1994 on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:34PM (#23339281)
I always found it weirdly honest that at every career fair all the Facebook and Google people were just working on ads.
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Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017) by bluedino on Thursday May 28, 2020 @10:25AM (#23337643)
What about their CPU division?
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Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017) by MaxBarraclough on Friday May 29, 2020 @12:20PM (#23351929)
Interesting question, I'm afraid I don't know.
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