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    Wish me luck. I'm going to try and live without google for the next 7 days.

    http://duckduckgo.com/
    "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

    #2
    The search engine is written in Perl
    "A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It’s the s*** that happens while you’re waiting for moments that never come." -- Lester Freamon

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      #3
      Originally posted by Freamon View Post
      Nowt wrong with modperl. Its ridiculously fast if you know what you are doing.
      merely at clientco for the entertainment

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        #4
        Originally posted by eek View Post
        Nowt wrong with modperl. Its ridiculously fast if you know what you are doing.
        Isn't slashdot.org written in Perl? That's a high performance site.

        Edit First entry on slashdot - YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music

        "I make nature videos for my YouTube channel, generally in remote wilderness away from any possible source of music. And I purposely avoid using a soundtrack in my videos because of all the horror stories I hear about Rumblefish filing claims against public domain music. But when uploading my latest video, YouTube informed me that I was using Rumblefish's copyrighted content, and so ads would be placed on my video, with the proceeds going to said company. This baffled me. I disputed their claim with YouTube's system — and Rumblefish refuted my dispute, and asserted that: 'All content owners have reviewed your video and confirmed their claims to some or all of its content: Entity: rumblefish; Content Type: Musical Composition.' So I asked some questions, and it appears that the birds singing in the background of my video are Rumblefish's exclusive intellectual property."
        You couldn't make this stuff up.
        Last edited by Sysman; 26 February 2012, 21:57.
        Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

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          #5
          Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
          Wish me luck. I'm going to try and live without google for the next 7 days.

          DuckDuckGo
          Are you worried google is going to tell the missus about your midget porn fetish?

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            #6
            Originally posted by eek View Post
            Nowt wrong with modperl. Its ridiculously fast if you know what you are doing.
            Terrifying from a maintainability point of view though.
            "A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It’s the s*** that happens while you’re waiting for moments that never come." -- Lester Freamon

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              #7
              Originally posted by wim121 View Post
              Are you worried google is going to tell the missus about your midget porn fetish?
              SSSSSSSssshhh!
              "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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                #8
                Originally posted by Freamon View Post
                Terrifying from a maintainability point of view though.
                Software is prone to wear and tear?
                "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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                  #9
                  perl yech, requires thought. PHP is brill. You just shove stuff together in PHP without having a clue what you are doing and it mostly works.

                  As for that search thingy, typed in xoggoth and only got 1 page. Bet even atw's thing would beat that.
                  Last edited by xoggoth; 26 February 2012, 23:15.
                  bloggoth

                  If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
                  John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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                    #10
                    A better alternative

                    Yandex
                    "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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