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>but most of us had no idea how to write a parser, let alone deal with the complexities of HTML and JavaScript. >a search engine how did that search engine wo
by tester34 5y ago
>but most of us had no idea how to write a parser, let alone deal with the complexities of HTML and JavaScript.
>a search engine
how did that search engine work?
- tdeck 5y agoPretty much all the apps were written in PHP on shared hosting. Since the system had support for a simple kind of forms (using GET requests), it was possible to accept queries for the various web apps. The search engine crawled the pages that existed looking for links from a few "start" pages, and built a primitive index.