Ah full text search...sorry my bad. I have been referring to much simpler indexes. All mostly sub 1GB that fit in memory. For Stackoverflow for example title, U

Ah full text search...sorry my bad. I have been referring to much simpler indexes. All mostly sub 1GB that fit in memory. For Stackoverflow for example title, URL and tag indexes. Wikipedia - title, URL, categories, geotags. This has been working out somehow for my general use. It has the feeling of working inside a library with card indexes. Lot of decent work can still get done. I agree with your points on why the bigbois are valuable and relevant when it comes to temporal and new constantly changing info. But what I am finding is (probably unique to my usecases) is I have enough info on disk to keep me occupied and productive for long periods totally offline.