YDN Q&A with DuckDuckGo, a search engine built with BOSS
- Posted June 27th, 2011 at 9:27 am by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: BOSS, Developer, Interviews, Search
Rahul Hampole, Senior Product Manager for Yahoo! Search BOSS, recently interviewed DuckDuckGo founder Gabriel Weinberg by email for the Yahoo! Developer Network’s blog. One of the Q&A’s include:
How does Yahoo! Search BOSS appeal to a developer like you (both on the product side and the business side)?
GW: On the product side, it enables a developer to deliver a fully functioning general-purpose search engine to a consumer, which is pretty amazing if you think about it. As such, it really opens up the possibility to innovate in search.
On the business side, the pricing structure enables you to find a profitable niche. Third-party advertising is allowed, and you can also use the Yahoo! Search ads, which should cover costs.
For more of the Q&A, check out the YDN blog interview.
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What is the third-party advertising allowed, referring to what?
YDN blog interview.
There is a message that I like yahoo.
Just went to duckduckgo and a fairly tech savvy person, but the message is not hitting home about why it is so important to NOT provide search data to search companies. How will they get better if everything is private?
There is a message that I like yahoo.
YDN blog interview
No doubt yahoo has changed for the better. I still didn’t get what the third party advertising is aiming at.