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Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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Post by superasn »

roryokane wrote: post #445
superasn wrote: post #435

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Am I missing something regarding not using this word?

It's the first time I've heard that word. I can guess that it's supposed to mean "solo entrepreneur", but it's a silly-sounding word to me. Basically, it's slang, which is unusual in a long article such as this.

It's being used since 1990s as per Oxford dictionary[1]. I asked because I thought it's one of the words which has become uncool to use.

[1] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/solopreneur

Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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Post by apatters »

Much ink is being spilled currently over the evils being perpetrated by the tech giants. What's so exciting about DuckDuckGo is

1. DDG competes directly with Google in Google's core market

2. Not being evil is DDG's differentiator for real, they're not just paying lip service

3. DDG is small and profitable... in other words, they're a successful startup.

It can be done. It is being done.

Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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Post by dx034 »

roryisok wrote: post #509
appleiigs wrote: post #404

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E-book writer... should explain his style. Here's a TLDR summary: - Google huge, DDG tiny. - Gabriel Weinberg serial startups all failed until he sold one for $10MM, which allowed him to do and focus on DDG. - Privacy a big deal these days and DDG markets towards that. - DDG makes money from keyword advertising and affiliate revenue. - You too can profit from something!

How much is $10MM? Like, a million million? Or is a millimeter thickness of dollars?

No, it's a thousand thousand (roman numeral). In finance, using MM and MMM is quite common (although bn is often preferred over MMM).

Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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Post by SeanDav »

OT:

> "Google would be an elephant while DuckDuckGo is a mosquito (this is not to emphasize; I’m actually making things better for DuckDuckGo)."

Actually the Author is not making it better, in fact worse. From the numbers in the OP it appears Google is about 1000 times bigger (roughly) than DDG.

A better, and perhaps more apt comparison would to compare Google's Elephant to DDG's Badger (small badger).

Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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Post by [deleted] »

roryisok wrote: post #509
appleiigs wrote: post #404

Earlier quoted context omitted.

E-book writer... should explain his style. Here's a TLDR summary: - Google huge, DDG tiny. - Gabriel Weinberg serial startups all failed until he sold one for $10MM, which allowed him to do and focus on DDG. - Privacy a big deal these days and DDG markets towards that. - DDG makes money from keyword advertising and affiliate revenue. - You too can profit from something!

How much is $10MM? Like, a million million? Or is a millimeter thickness of dollars?

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Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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Post by dredmorbius »

SeanDav wrote: post #535
chuckledog wrote: post #515

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Does DDG learn from what people !g for?

I would sincerely hope not! i.e. Tracking.

If that information isn't personalised in any fashion and the data are retained for a minimum period, I'd be OK with sorting out what types of queries aren't satisfied on DDG itself.

Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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Post by dredmorbius »

jxcl wrote: post #298
graphitezepp wrote: post #175

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I only miss google as a DDG user when DDG doesn't have a tool google has to give you an automatic result, i.e. when trying to look up some unit conversion ratio like lb to kg. But when you know that is what you want there is always !g.

Do you know about the `units` command? $ units Currency exchange rates from www.timegenie.com on 2017-08-24 2980 units, 109 prefixes, 96 nonlinear units You have: 5 lbs You want: kg * 2.2679619 / 0.44092452 You have: 100 furlongs You want: meters * 20116.8 / 4.9709695e-05 You have: 100 miles/hour You want: meters/second * 44.704 / 0.022369363 You have: 2 kiloisraelnewshekels You want: picodollars * 5.5271109e+14 / 1.…

Units absolutely rocks. It can do quite complex calculations as well, and you can add to the units it knows.

Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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Post by dredmorbius »

ehsankia wrote: post #430
jasonkostempski wrote: post #383

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The only thing I miss is the "Past Year" option. I find it really important for filtering out programming stuff that's too old. "Past Month" is too short. I can't understand why it's not there. I've sent the suggestion several times.

Custom dates is also extremely useful when you want an reverse date filter, removing recent results.

Pretty much my top reason for going Google any more.
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