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Great project! I wonder if you might be willing to go into more details about what made it an "interesting technical challenge"?
by johnhenry 9y ago
Great project! I wonder if you might be willing to go into more details about what made it an "interesting technical challenge"?
- jwngr 9y agoThe sheer scale of Wikipedia (5 millions pages, half a trillion links) made it difficult to make the searches fast. Simply downloading the Wikipedia database dumps and parsing them into my own database took over a day on my first successful attempt. The site returns most results in just a few seconds despite the giant graph size.