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Re:How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into th... by jeffbee on Saturday December 19, 2020 @12:55PM (#25479431)
You think it's practical to run the query on the index, materialize the full result, re-index it, run the full query string, and rank? This suggests you do not understand the scale of the problem.
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Re:How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into th... by dheera on Saturday December 19, 2020 @03:45PM (#25481006)
You don't need to re-match or re-index on the full set of results to display just the first page.

I fully understand the scale of the problem. I also think this is a very approachable problem for a thousand Google engineers who have done a lot harder things.

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