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Read the last part of my comment, I suspect they don't use it for the main web index but only for the fresh subindexes. A search engine like Bing can have multi
by ot 9y ago
Read the last part of my comment, I suspect they don't use it for the main web index but only for the fresh subindexes. A search engine like Bing can have multiple indexing systems in production for different use cases.
- jsnell 9y agoRight, that's the exact use case they state in the paper: > For the past 4 years, BitFunnel has powered Bing’s fresh index of recently crawled documents. So it's specialized. But why would that mean it's impractical?
- ot 9y agoI had missed that sentence, but also I never said it's impractical.