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notyourwork
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Two upstart search engines are teaming up to take ...
This reads like the “I could build Dropbox in a weekend”.
arnaudsm
on Nov 12, 2024
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Haha yes, but my argument is not about individuals, but about "tech" companies that externalize everything and do not develop tech internally.
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It's just files, how hard could it be?
rwaksmunski
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No that hard, took me 4 weekends to build a private search engine with Common Crawl, Wikipedia and HN as a link authority source. Takes about a week to crunch the data on an old Lenovo workstation with 256gb ram and some storage.
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