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Now only if the ranking could happen on my machine too, based on my (search) history... not in this life probably.

• marginalia_nu 5y ago
  That's probably doable, but the problem is this information needs to be available upstream. Say you search for "seafood" and there are 50,000,000 results from 100,000 domains because everyone just loves making websites about clams and sushi; it's not really feasible to send you all of those results, your query would take 15 minutes and that's not a nice experience. The tricky part in search is finding the needles in the haystack. So the crux is each of the index shards needs to know the ranking to be able to send you just the most relevant results.