News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Greplin (YC W10) Search Engine Tackles Facebook, Twitter. Parent comment

Re:Greplin (YC W10) Search Engine Tackles Facebook, Twitter by ntoshev on Thursday February 17, 2011 @03:08AM (#2230262)
I don't know what Greplin is doing, but indexing alone doesn't imply they cache your data somewhere. Although the index contains pieces of your text, you can't reconstruct it from the inverted index alone.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Greplin (YC W10) Search Engine Tackles Facebook, Twitter by mychacho on Thursday February 17, 2011 @04:03AM (#2230345)
From usability standpoint, they have this google-instant-search-esque thing going where they produce instant search result with text as soon as you start typing. So unless they are hitting the APIs of every provider you authorized to them and searching through them in near real time, they are storing the data.
[ Parent | on HN ]