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Re:25 Things I Hate About Google by rokhayakebe on Saturday March 19, 2011 @12:54PM (#2344051)
Assumptions. Engineers are confident that building a search engine requires thousands of servers, indexing the entire web, coming up with some super complex algorithm etc...

Maybe we need a couple of guys who do not know their limitations and are ready to approach search from a different angle.

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Re:25 Things I Hate About Google by dexen on Saturday March 19, 2011 @02:14PM (#2344279)
Perhaps the author of DuckDuckGo[1] did not know about those limitations...

As far as I know, this search engine uses both own crawlers and some external sources of data. One person team did it.

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[1] http://duckduckgo.com/

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Re:25 Things I Hate About Google by neild on Saturday March 19, 2011 @03:14PM (#2344422)
By "some external sources of data", you mean "Bing". DDG's primary data source is Bing, via the Yahoo search APIs.
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