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"DuckDuckGo, which aggregates information obtained from 400 other non-Google sources, including its own modest crawler.)" I looked into it, and it seems DDG is using Bing and Yahoo search API and lots of other sources. I looked into the pricing of Yahoo's search API / Bing search API,it ranges from $0.80 / 1000 queries to several dollars per thousand queries. It seems to expensive to be economically viable with ads,…
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> It is actually very easy to do legislatively It would be easy to write a law, not to pass one. Generally speaking, when a law is unpredictably disruptive it becomes (a) difficult to pass and (b) time-consuming and costly to defend in court.
The difference in this case is that the usual defenders of private property rights and libertarianism feel as though Google is suppressing them, potentially removing the usual roadblock to this kind reform. This is a rare instance where anti-corporate leftists and dejected right wingers could actually do something substantive together. In most cases I would agree with you the defenders of private industry are pretty…
Potentially. It's still more difficult than the author's index proposal. No reason they can't be pursued in parallel.
Regarding a search-ad break-up, I'd guess there would be lots of wrangling over (and lobbying around) defining search and advertising. For example, is Amazon's product search tied to an advertising business, given it sells third parties' products?
"DuckDuckGo, which aggregates information obtained from 400 other non-Google sources, including its own modest crawler.)" I looked into it, and it seems DDG is using Bing and Yahoo search API and lots of other sources. I looked into the pricing of Yahoo's search API / Bing search API,it ranges from $0.80 / 1000 queries to several dollars per thousand queries. It seems to expensive to be economically viable with ads,…
If DuckDuckGo can change their stupid name they will gain market share overnight.
I agree. I've given up recommending DuckDuckGo to non-technical friends/family because they always get distracted by the irritating name. I wish they would change it to "Duck.com".
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Many just call them duck or ddg now. They bought duck.com
Did they buy it recently? I recall Google owning it for a bit through an acquisition? Yeah it certainly would be nice if ddg rebranded and pushed duck as it's name.
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Though, I'd say totally free enterprise alone doesn't actually work. It naturally leads to monopolies (as is pretty much the case with bloomberg terminals for example), and the law of the jungle in general. If that's the kind of society you want, then head to many 3rd world countries.