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Almost everything you mentioned does not make any sense. 1. Search is just not hidden in GUI for users, who are not logged in, but these users can still perfor
by zhuxuefeng1994 11y ago
Almost everything you mentioned does not make any sense.
1. Search is just not hidden in GUI for users, who are not logged in, but these users can still perform search as other people mentioned in comments
2. Github Search is definitely cached
3. It has nothing to do with DDOS. Do you expect Google requires you to sign in in order to prevent DDOS? Moreover, unless Github is totally wall-gardened, there are tons of ways to DDOS the service. I suggest you need to learn how DDOS actually works.
- oliwarner 11y ago1. ? 2. No disagreement that searching for the same thing can be cached. But that's not the problem. Search for "banana" "banana 2" "banana 3", etc. It's very simple for a botnet to hit a search function like this with unlimited variance, making it impossible to cache against. 3. You think that Github and Google receive the same revenue benefits from providing a free search?
- zhuxuefeng1994 11y agoDo you understand how search works?
- x1024 11y agoGuy, you're wrong. You can keep arguing, but that won't change reality.