"It's like the evolution of the LAMP stack that has served so many sites so well for many years. Too bad there isn't a snappy acronym like LAMP for it. Maybe we can call it the Duck stack."<p>Nginix, Memcached, PostgreSQL, Perl, FreeBSD.<p>Duck stack? Is DuckDuckGo really the first to ever use these together? I highly doubt it. This article is very kiss-ass and I can't tell why it's on a site that talks about open source software. Writing your crawler and backend in Perl doesn't mean you're built from open source, nor does using FreeBSD as your operating system. Or does it? Also, I noticed in the first sentence they link the words "search engine" to DDG instead of "DuckDuckGo" (the first word in the first sentence). This article is contrived and looks more like someone just paid to have it written up.
Is this getting voted up just because it mentions DDG? It's fine for HN to have a crush on DDG (it's a good site), but I'd like to suggest that we should be a bit more discerning about what we vote up.
DuckDuckGo is a pretty well done site. I don't know if DDG is doing anything revolutionary with their software stack, but the stack is working well enough that one guy is essentially providing a useful alternative to Google. Consider the amount of brilliant engineers working on Google search, and you have to be a touch impressed.<p>Of course, this extremely light weight development means he can have enough success to live on without worrying about monetizing as effectively as Google. Since he doesn't track searches as much as Google and thus cannot provide advertisers the same amount of targeting, this is important.<p>I look forward to tracking the site's evolution!
I'm sorry. Guilty as charged. I voted it up as soon as I saw DuckDuckGo in the title. I didn't know I was this simple, but I seem to automatically upvote everything relating to DDG...