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		abalaji on Nov 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We can do better than DuckDuckGo This is why search is hard: 15% of Google searches are new each day. [1] And, with over 1.7+ billion web pages, [2] it would take a gargantuan open source effort to put something together like this. Not to mention the cost, not sure something like this could be sustained with a Wikipedia-esque "please donate $15" fundraising model. [1] https://searchengineland.com/google-reaffirms-15-searches-ne... [2] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/09/chart-of-the-day-how-...

effie on Nov 18, 2020 [–]

Why is the ratio of new queries relevant at all?

The open alternative to Google doesn't need to have the same capacity for download and indexing.

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