DuckDuckGo is blowing up
Thank you all! (I'm the founder.)<p>In response to a lot of the comments here, please know that two major things we're working on are better programming queries (<a href="https://duckduckgo.com/tech.html" rel="nofollow">https://duckduckgo.com/tech.html</a> -- one of my new favorites <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=alternative+to+picasa" rel="nofollow">https://duckduckgo.com/?q=alternative+to+picasa</a>) and speed.<p>For speed, just this week we upgraded our whole caching system, which should significantly speed up a lot of queries. I'd be interested to know if anyone has noticed any difference over the past day or so. This change should equalize a lot of the location differences, which is the main issue. In some parts of the world we were way slower.<p>Also, for anyone wanting to get involved we've been open sourcing more and more (<a href="https://github.com/duckduckgo" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/duckduckgo</a>). We're working on better entry points, but one could start here now: <a href="https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo/wiki" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo/wiki</a>. For programming documentation in particular, this is the repo: <a href="https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-fathead" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-fathead</a>. That will answer queries like <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=perl+split" rel="nofollow">https://duckduckgo.com/?q=perl+split</a><p>On the back-end we could also use some sysadmin help :). Here's our hiring info: <a href="http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216387" rel="nofollow">http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216387</a><p>Of course, we're also always looking for feedback, the more detailed/specific the better: <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/feedback.html" rel="nofollow">https://duckduckgo.com/feedback.html</a>