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Re:Abusing AWS Lambda to make an Aussie search engine by ignoramous on Monday September 27, 2021 @03:25AM (#28668012)
Neat!

> Incidentally searching around for prior art I found this blog post https://www.morling.dev/blog/how-i-built-a-serverless-search... about building something similar using lucene, but without storing the content and only on a single lambda.

See also:

Sqlite FTS (no server): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27016630

EdgeSearch (Workers): https://github.com/wilsonzlin/edgesearch

EdgeSql (Workers): https://github.com/lspgn/edge-sql

InfiniCache (Lambda): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25788893

quickwit (Lambda): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27074481

> I had been working on a bloom filter based index based on the ideas of bitfunnel which was developed by Bob Goodwin, Michael Hopcroft, Dan Luu, Alex Clemmer, Mihaela Curmei, Sameh Elnikety and Yuxiong He and used in Microsoft Bing https://danluu.com/bitfunnel-sigir.pdf.

Reminds me of wavelet trees: https://alexbowe.com/succinct-debruijn-graphs/ https://alexbowe.com/wavelet-trees/

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