Ask DuckDuckGo: Is there Anything you Want to Know About DDG?

Next week I'm going to have the pleasure of interviewing Gabriel Weinberg, founder of rebel search engine DuckDuckGo. Is there anything you would like to know about DuckDuckGo that I can ask Gabe? Please contact me or comment on this thread with your deepest desires.

Comments

[lambda]

I would be interested in:

- Frontend Tech Stack
- Backend storage/index architecture
- latency mgmt
- initial scaling challenge

well everything really .. :P

[Someone]

I would be curious to know what his strategy would be should Yahoo shut down Boss and Bing shut down their API.

[Sandy]

addition to above questions I would like to know business mode and revenue source?

[LordDoskias]

Something about the Machine Learning (if any) they are using

[Jordan]

I'd love to hear how DDG plans on differentiating themselves from Google in the long run. How will they innovate the search process? And also, what do they think Google/Bing are currently doing wrong?

[Chris Cowley]

I second the revenue info. I use DDG all the time now as I value the privacy, but it does worry me that I see no obvious revenue stream.

[Nick]

* Did they build their own crawler?
* Do they manage their own servers?
* What's their biggest limiting factor (in scaling)?
* What was their most stressful/challenging scaling/devops moment?