On: DuckDuckGo Architecture - 1 Million Deep Searches ...

[jules]

On 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.

[jules → jules]

Not 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

[tedunangst → jules]

Same comment was posted in another thread.

[gummydude → jules]

Their system centered around APIs, hashmap and msg encode/decode are CPU bound.

[account_taken → jules]

Doesn't google do around 3 billion searches/day? I was under the impression DuckDuckGo was a bigger player.