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Re:Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines... by tudelo on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @02:28PM (#20287774)
How would you begin indexing everything?
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Re:Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines... by Jaruzel on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @05:43PM (#20289520)
This is good question. Crawling and storing the pages is the easy part... searching them with a sub 1 second response time is much harder. Which current DB platforms can handle the size of data that Google indexes?
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