DuckDuckGo – 1 Million Deep Searches A Day And Growing

Who knew! The search engine DuckDuckGo runs on Solr and easily handles 1 million deep searches a day. Based on a personal interview with Gabriel Weinberg, founder of Duck Duck Go and a number of related articles this article goes into detail as to what DDG’s architecture looks like in 2012.

The areas reviewed in depth are:

• The Platform
• What’s Inside
• Out Of The Basement And Into AWS (Mostly)
• Searching – It’s Complicated
• Development
• Monetization Strategy – Advertising
• Audience Questions
• Lessons Learned

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