prakash | 13 years ago | on: DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator
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prakash | 13 years ago | on: DuckDuckHack
Our immediate plans don't involve maintaing country specific domains. We might revisit this if/when DDG is available in additional languages.
Also, some users don't like that country level redirect and prefer the .com.
One solution, which does require a couple of steps is to use our Cloud save & save your settings anonymously in the cloud.
At the bottom of the settings page (https://duckduckgo.com/settings.html), you can enable cloud save, there is also a FAQ.
prakash | 13 years ago | on: DuckDuckHack
Right now, you can go to settings (https://duckduckgo.com/settings.html) & select UK from the region settings.
prakash | 13 years ago | on: DuckDuckHack
Please check github:
- https://github.com/duckduckgo
- https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-fathead
- https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice
- https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies
Some of these are listed on our Goodies page: https://duckduckgo.com/goodies/
New plugins are announced on http://twitter.com/duckduckhack
Feedback welcome.
prakash | 13 years ago | on: DuckDuckHack
Thanks for the feedback, will pass it along.
prakash | 13 years ago | on: Bing vs. Google
(we're still the only search engine that lets you completely turn off ads as a user preference for example)
You can do that with DuckDuckGo: http://duckduckgo.com/settings.html > Layout tab > Advertisements.
[I work at DDG.]
prakash | 14 years ago | on: Introducing DuckDuckHack
Good ideas, we are collecting all of them here: http://ideas.duckduckhack.com/
prakash | 14 years ago | on: Introducing DuckDuckHack
prakash | 14 years ago | on: DuckDuckGo is blowing up
!g "search query" on DDG will do the search on google.
Entire list here: http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html reply
prakash | 14 years ago | on: DuckDuckGo is blowing up
!g "search query" on DDG will do the search on google.
Entire list here: http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html
prakash | 14 years ago | on: DuckDuckGo is blowing up
Fastestfox, Cyberspace and others use our API: http://duckduckgo.com/api.html
Would love to hear ideas on (iii).
prakash | 14 years ago | on: DuckDuckGo is blowing up
Fastestfox, Cyberspace and others use our API: http://duckduckgo.com/api.html
prakash | 14 years ago | on: Duck Duck Go's traffic has tripled in 2012
You can use "!gi" to search google images from DDG & "!bi" to search bing images.
prakash | 14 years ago | on: New AWS Region in Sao Paulo, Brazil
don't wait. You can use Cedexis to do geo/cost/more with multiple aws regions/ availability zones: http://www.cedexis.com/products/cedexis-openmix/
prakash | 14 years ago | on: Don't Call Yourself a Programmer
I recently stumbled across a web-page from the guy whose professional bio is “wrote the backend billing code that 97% of Google’s revenue passes through.” He’s now an angel investor (a polite synonym for “rich”).
Any idea who this person is?
prakash | 14 years ago | on: Global average response times from EC2 regions
Here's a country based comparison of cloud perf: http://www.cedexis.com/which-is-the-right-cloud-for-the-job-...
You can get access to this data (my comment above and the cloud connect presentation) by signing up for a free account on our site: http://www.cedexis.com/which-is-the-right-cloud-for-the-job-...
prakash | 14 years ago | on: "Any time you have worked long hours, it is a sign of a broken process."
That bookmark service that did great out of the del.ici.ous fiasco (sorry I honestly can't remember your name!).
prakash | 15 years ago | on: Why Facebook Needs Sheryl Sandberg
Josh has been on HN since the beginning: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jkopelman
prakash | 15 years ago | on: Why DNS-based Global Server Load Balancing does not work [2004]
Since the Amazon outage, I've been wondering about the best way to quickly switch to another host.
This is exact problem we (Cedexis) solve.
Assume your site is www.website.com, in general points to an A record or a CNAME to a datacenter/ cloud/ CDN.
We add an intermediate hostname, low TTL (20 seconds), global anycast network, which can be scripted (write your load-balancing logic in php) to handout a CNAME (one of many) based on performance (RTT), load, cost, anything else you can think of, etc.
Re.: AWS's recent outage, assuming you are running your apps in multiple zones/ regions/ clouds, we would have noticed the latency and automatically routed away to a different zone/ region/ cloud.
We collect hundreds of millions of performance measurements daily: http://gigaom.com/cloud/heres-what-amazon-outage-looked-like...
Drop an email and I am happy to explain more and setup folks from HN with a free account: prakash at cedexis.com
prakash | 15 years ago | on: Amazon Web Services are down
Here's the 24h latency data on EC2 east, west, eu, apac: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1898990/EC2-multiple-zones-24h.png
Last 60 minutes comparison data: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1898990/EC2-multiple-zones-60m.png
time in GMT.
A study we (Cedexis) did in January comparing multiple ec2 zones and other cloud providers: (pdf) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1898990/76-marty-kagan.pdf
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Just so there is no ambiguity, we are alive, doing well and growing: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html