DuckDuckGo on CNBC: We’ve grown 600% since NSA surveillance news broke

Re:DuckDuckGo on CNBC: We’ve grown 600% since NSA surveillan... by sugarfactory on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @07:44AM (#9731130)

That's why we need a truly decentralized search engine so that there's no one to trust and to have power therefore no way to pressure someone.

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Re:DuckDuckGo on CNBC: We’ve grown 600% since NSA surveillan... by tiatia on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @08:02AM (#9731204)

http://yacy.net/?

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Re:DuckDuckGo on CNBC: We’ve grown 600% since NSA surveillan... by bobajeff on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @08:51AM (#9731420)

How about one that can do multi-term queries at a decent speed while at a large scale while still giving good results?

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Re:DuckDuckGo on CNBC: We’ve grown 600% since NSA surveillan... by tiatia on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @09:05AM (#9731506)

I assume this should increase with the number of users? no?

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Re:DuckDuckGo on CNBC: We’ve grown 600% since NSA surveillan... by jerf on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @09:15AM (#9731552)

Beware the delta between promises and reality.

I started out thinking "theory and reality", but, even in theory, adding a ton of very slow, latent, and unreliable data sources to your query doesn't produce a fast result.

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Re:DuckDuckGo on CNBC: We’ve grown 600% since NSA surveillan... by bobajeff on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @12:07PM (#9732834)

No. I don't believe Yacy will reach exceptable performance as it scales.

I encourage people interested to look at "Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval: An Overview" in order to get a better understanding on what technical challenges distributed search engines like Yacy have yet to overcome and the paths researchers are taking to overcome them.

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