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Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

#151
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Down in Sydney. Intermittent errors when searching. How am I supposed to work? Also, I don't remember when Google Search was last down. Either google has great uptime, or I have terrible memory.

Try Duckduckgo? Indeed, I don't remember when Google search was down last time either.

DDG is mostly (but not all) Bing (context, yegg is the founder of DDG): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31492631 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31490994

Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

#156

No Worries! The Google Server in Mountain View has had a disk failed in it's RAID and therefore the sqlite-DB has only half the iops to it's disposal. A new 500GB hard disk is already in dispatch with Amazon. These are the moments why Google is a proud Amazon Prime customer.

I know many people’s immediate reaction is that 500GB seems small, but remember, they’re not storing the whole internet — just an index of it. The whole internet would need a much larger RAID, with literally dozens of hard disks.

They kind of do store the internet though, don't they? They store a cached version of most pages.

Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

#157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

stop. spamming. brave.

an alternative search engine to replace the service that's down? ... you seem awfully mad to be policing the comments. It's possible to use a non-datamining search engine while being completely bearish on crypto too. Google needs more downtime.

Good. We need actual working alternatives and right now Brave seems to be working today as the tech bros here are crying and getting upset about Google going down.

> It's possible to use a non-datamining search engine while being completely bearish on crypto too.

Indeed it is. Brave leads this example. Mozilla on the other hand is in Google’s payroll, paid to shill their privacy violating search engine.

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