News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Show HN: Open-source search engine with 2bn-page index.

Re:Show HN: Open-source search engine with 2bn-page index by skykooler on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @09:54AM (#12488214)
It shows snippets of the web pages under each result; however, generally not the particular snippets that contain the search term. I would think that would be useful.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Show HN: Open-source search engine with 2bn-page index by deusu on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @10:13AM (#12488382)
Yes, it would be better.

The snippets are currently the first 255 characters of the page's text. For snippets to be customized to the search term, I would have to store all the text of the page. And that would require a lot more disk space. Space that I can't afford at the moment.

[ Parent | on HN ]