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Re:Ask HN: Do you find working on large distributed systems ... by jqgatsby on Saturday February 19, 2022 @10:53AM (#30397984)
@fxtentacle, I was curious which private search engine this is for. Is the system you are describing ImageRights.com?
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Re:Ask HN: Do you find working on large distributed systems ... by fxtentacle on Saturday February 19, 2022 @11:02AM (#30398058)
No, ImageRights is much more requests and mostly images. Also, at ImageRights I don't have management above me that I would need to convince :)

This one is text-only and used by influencers and brands to check which newspapers report about their events. As I said, it's internally used by a few partner companies who buy the API from my client and sell news alerts to their clients.

BTW, I'm hoping to one day build something similar as an open source search engine where people pay for the data generation and then effectively run their own ad-free Google clone, but so far interest has been _very_ low:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30374611 (1 upvote)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30361385 (5 upvotes)

EDIT: Out of curiosity I just checked and found my intuition wrong. The ImageRights API averages 316rps = 819mio requests per month. So it's not that much bigger.

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