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This is why search is hard: 15% of Google searches are new each day. [1] And, with over 1.7+ billion web pages, [2] it would take a gargantuan open source effor
by abalaji 6y ago
This is why search is hard: 15% of Google searches are new each day. [1] And, with over 1.7+ billion web pages, [2] it would take a gargantuan open source effort to put something together like this.
Not to mention the cost, not sure something like this could be sustained with a Wikipedia-esque "please donate $15" fundraising model.
[1] https://searchengineland.com/google-reaffirms-15-searches-new-never-searched-273786 https://searchengineland.com/google-reaffirms-15-searches-ne...
[2] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/09/chart-of-the-day-how-many-websites-are-there https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/09/chart-of-the-day-how-...
- effie 6y agoWhy is the ratio of new queries relevant at all? The open alternative to Google doesn't need to have the same capacity for download and indexing.