[dba-Tech] Duckduckgo

Hi jim,

Duckduckgo is pretty cool. Good to see that it's user base has grown throughout the years.

However, and I don't mean to be pedantic, but I've seen you make this mistake a few times (maybe its your spell checker?) and I just wanted to let you know that Inginx is in fact spelled Nginx (there's no 'i' in front).

:)

- Hans



On 2013-02-19, at 8:36 AM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> For the last week or so I have been using the Duckduckgo search engine to
> find information I need.
> 
> It seems to provide all the information the Google does but it runs faster
> (debatable) and is very customizable. (https://duckduckgo.com/settings) It
> has all sorts of interesting features as it has taken the best from Yahoo,
> Google, Bing and Wolframalpha and left the rest.
> (https://duckduckgo.com/goodies)
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo
> 
> The most of the application is OSS running on Inginx and Linux/FreeBSD and
> believe-it-or-not is written the flavour of Perl (with full parallel
> processing capabilities), JavaScript and it is Cloud based expandable.
> (https://github.com/duckduckgo) There is multiple sources that describe the
> application and it components but the trouble is each one says something
> different, so who knows.
> 
> The application has grown extremely popular as it does not save data on
> anyone's searches, in otherwards gives all user complete privacy. Users
> wouldn't have to worry about whether a government is demanding information
> to support a court case against you or your friends or the site has been
> hacked and you personal information has been stolen.
> 
> Here is a description of the site, in their own words: 
> https://duckduckgo.com/about
> 
> The activity of the site has grown from 250K a month, last August to one
> million hits a day. Even Google has made it possible to add the Duckduckgo
> search engine to Chrome, as a plug-in.
> 
> I did not think I would initially like the program enough but I find it very
> adaptable, full of features and can see it becoming my main search engine. 
> 
> https://duckduckgo.com/
> 
> Jim
> 
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