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Re:Apple Should Buy a Search Engine, Analyst Says by kube-system on Monday June 08, 2020 @08:05PM (#23462213)
Gotta love it when Wall Street comments on the strategy of companies they only partially understand.

In order to stop paying a third-party for search results, Apple should buy a company that mostly pays third parties for search results?

> Apple could likely buy it for under $1 billion

> a deal would be fairly easy to digest given DuckDuckGo’s small size, with fewer than 100 employees.

Exactly what kind of tech does this author think DDG has that Apple couldn't build better than DDG with 1,000 employees making a $500,000 salary for 2 years?

I love DDG, but I don't think this person really knows what it is.

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Re:Apple Should Buy a Search Engine, Analyst Says by TAForObvReasons on Monday June 08, 2020 @08:28PM (#23462334)
Cynical part of me expects to hear about DDG raising another round in the near future. This is the type of article I'd want out there if I were looking to raise money, giving a seemingly plausible exit strategy with a valuation
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