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1 million doesn't seem that big a number on the internet?
by account_taken 14y ago
1 million doesn't seem that big a number on the internet?
- jules 14y agoOn average that's around 11.6 requests per second. That's about 500 million CPU cycles per request on single low end CPU. Of course DDG probably isn't CPU bound, but it does give an indication that 11 requests per second is not a lot relative to the raw power of modern hardware.
- yegg 14y agoWe also do about 12M API requests per day: http://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html http://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html
- jules 14y agoNot sure why yegg's (Gabriel Weinberg) comment was killed. It says: > We also do about 12M API requests per day: http://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html http://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html
- tedunangst 14y agoSame comment was posted in another thread.
- gummydude 14y agoTheir system centered around APIs, hashmap and msg encode/decode are CPU bound.
- account_taken 14y agoDoesn't google do around 3 billion searches/day? I was under the impression DuckDuckGo was a bigger player.