Part of why I ask this is because Gabriel Weinberg (top dog at DDG) is quoted as saying, “[Y]ou can get to an 80/20 pretty quickly” in this court document: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18552824/1436/united-states-of-america-v-google-llc/
He is talking about the 80/20 problem, which is supposedly that it isn’t too hard to make a search engine that can answer 80% of queries, but it takes more effort to be able to answer the remaining 20%.
The problem is, if DuckDuckGo has never had it’s own index what would Gabriel know about the 80/20 problem? Seems like he would only know what he’s heard from other people.
bigyabai•3mo ago
n1xis10t•3mo ago
He said something like, “Oh, 80% comes from 20%.” I didn’t get it, but he must have been referencing this.