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Assumptions. Engineers are confident that building a search engine requires thousands of servers, indexing the entire web, coming up with some super complex alg

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.

dexen 16y ago
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. ---- [1] http://duckduckgo.com/ http://duckduckgo.com/
- neild 16y ago
  By "some external sources of data", you mean "Bing". DDG's primary data source is Bing, via the Yahoo search APIs.