At the end of the day, all we are doing is create, read, update, and delete data.

I mean if you take away all the complexity associated with ranking and scale (not everything has to be Google scale), that is exactly what a web search is as well, right?

I remember reading a post by a maintainer saying their job is to manipulate strings or something to that effect. iirc it was a gofmt maintainer who said that but I can't find that post now.