Re:Duck Duck Go Passed 1mm Searches Per Day
by mikkom on Thursday February 16, 2012 @02:58PM
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I'm quite sure they used to use google in the past
> Why can't DDG just cut their losses and invest in building their own index?
That's far from trivial task.. Scraping and using other peoples results is easy, building and scaling a huge database like search index is one of the hardest problems you can find.
Re:Duck Duck Go Passed 1mm Searches Per Day
by AznHisoka on Thursday February 16, 2012 @03:16PM
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Ok that's fair. But in that case, I don't understand what compelling way DDG is differentiating themselves from other search engines besides a few cool, nice, thin value features.
> Why can't DDG just cut their losses and invest in building their own index?
That's far from trivial task.. Scraping and using other peoples results is easy, building and scaling a huge database like search index is one of the hardest problems you can find.