Re:Hey Google, I want my cache links back
by emp_ on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @10:38AM
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I used DDG for about a month as my main search engine, I love the bang syntax and lots of other goodies, but for me down in Brazil DDG just responds 10-15x slower than Google -- so my commitment is that I will keep coming back to test for latency improvements until I can switch over completely.
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Re:Hey Google, I want my cache links back
by latitude on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @08:25PM
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Same here, but in Canada. DDG response time is a major showstopper. From a brief examination the issue appeared to be rooted in DNS response time, which is something that I wasn't able to fix by trying different DNS servers. So, regretfully I had to switch back to Google.
Re:Hey Google, I want my cache links back
by epi0Bauqu on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @08:39PM
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That's weird (on DNS). We have been having an issue with in Canada where one of the major ISPs is dropping packets on route. If you'd email us I'd love to investigate this further.
Re:Hey Google, I want my cache links back
by nknight on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @12:19PM
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I don't think that's strongly geography-related. I see the same thing from California with a very fast connection.
If you search for some things (try "stack overflow" or "red bull"), you seem to get a near-instant results for the thing judged most likely/relevant in a red box at the top of the page, then the "ordinary" results are loaded separately, I think in a separate javascript call.
They seem to have a some split architecture that keeps a few bits spooled up for quick retrieval, and say to heck with the rest. My first instinct would be that they're RAM-poor, and also wonder if, not being able to cache sufficiently in RAM, they're also being hamstrung by I/O performance on EC2.