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"It's like the evolution of the LAMP stack that has served so many sites so well for many years. Too bad there isn't a snappy acronym like LAMP for it. Maybe we
by coderdude 16y ago
"It's like the evolution of the LAMP stack that has served so many sites so well for many years. Too bad there isn't a snappy acronym like LAMP for it. Maybe we can call it the Duck stack."
Nginix, Memcached, PostgreSQL, Perl, FreeBSD.
Duck stack? Is DuckDuckGo really the first to ever use these together? I highly doubt it. This article is very kiss-ass and I can't tell why it's on a site that talks about open source software. Writing your crawler and backend in Perl doesn't mean you're built from open source, nor does using FreeBSD as your operating system. Or does it? Also, I noticed in the first sentence they link the words "search engine" to DDG instead of "DuckDuckGo" (the first word in the first sentence). This article is contrived and looks more like someone just paid to have it written up.
- jacquesm 16y agoAfaik ddg does not have its own crawler (yet) but is built on top of other search engines, it does pull in a lot of data from different sources.
- coderdude 16y agoFrom the article: "DuckDuckGo also uses it's own web crawler: the DuckDuckBot." Plus I'm pretty sure I've heard the DDG guy mention it before on HN.
- jacquesm 16y agoOk, neat, thanks for the correction!
- jm4 16y agoIt does according to the DDG FAQ: https://duckduckgo.com/faq.html https://duckduckgo.com/faq.html