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Tried DuckDuckGo for a while, but Google still has better results, I think.
BTW, does anyone else feel that LET is snappier and quicker than the last few days. Ig, the staff upgraded the DO droplet in anticipation of the BF threads.
Yup. While DDG is more private, it has a long way to go to beat Google at functionality and accuracy
I only have a few paid vps. Most of my vps are free lol (like racknerd giveaways)
We are at Page 269 already. Pretty sure we will cross 300 in a day or two. If there are giveaways in the next 2 days as well, it would be definitely easy
AND will there be GAs then?
Agreed!
Me as well. I only own RackNerd VPS. And, the credits pay for them
Ooh yeah that will probably happen soon
Years ago, I tried switching to DDG, too. But I found the search results were really not as good as google.
We'll see now. I'm currently using Brave with 4get, and it seems mostly OK so far. But it also supports DuckDuckGo, Yandex, Startpage, Qwant, Ghostery, Yep, Greppr, Crowdview, Mwmbl, Mojeek, Baidu, CocCoc, Solofield, Marginalia, Wiby, and Curlie.
Ofcourse. It's a mixture of back to back flash sales and giveaways when the chef's here
The only vps I pay for, is a 16 GB ram vps at contabo.
I mainly use it for a minecraft server i host for me and my friends.
Performance is okay, except for world generation. Minecraft world generation is pretty heavy and my vps does not like it.
I wish there was an open-source alt to Google that was close to it in efficiency. But, I don't think it will ever be a possibility given Google is an MNC with too much moolah to develop the perfect recipe for a search engine
Flash sales?
Well, that's another great part of being a member of the RackNerd Hype Squad
Yah I just checked their repo since you posted. I will be trying out 4get post the BF thread. Hope it will be finally something that can replace Google for me
Yep. Running a search engine at that scale is pretty hard.
You need to scrape a lot of websites, keep them up to date and rank sites correctly.
That's a pretty hard task to do at that scale!
Won't it be better if the VPS had a GPU?
Still trying to get my spot back on the leaderboard. About 50 more comments!
Yup, weren't you active last year on the BF thread?
Exactly, the crawling alone would be pretty intensive and something that cannot be done locally with a Single machine
Since it's a minecraft server, a GPU does not matter at all as no rendering has to be done.
While there are projects that try to run world generation on a gpu, I haven't seen any improvements.
And most (minecraft) hostings or VPS don't include a GPU anyway.
Keep going. Keep chatting. I will help you reach there.
Yep. Sure, you could use something like the Common Crawl dataset, but doing the ranking etc is also a large challenge
Oh. I didn't know. I haven't played MC before so don't know what it needs.
There are mods, like c2me, that make world generation multi-threaded, but that's still a bit useless if your cpu is slow
https://modrinth.com/mod/c2me-fabric
Aah okay. Yeah minecraft servers mainly depend on cpu. And it prefers high single-core speeds, so a Ryzen cpu/vps would probably better for me.
Yup, I mean fresh crawling becomes essential if you want it to be as updated as Google. That in itself is almost a very difficult task. When you add the ranking system to it, it becomes too much for a single machine to handle, at any costs.
Oh, Minecraft I know has it's own developer network and fans, but, only recently did I come to know that it was extreemly popular
Maybe a Ryzen 9 7950X could do you good. I believe RackNerd might restock those or already have those.