There is a book called “Finding Out About” that I read a long time ago. It describes all aspects of what you would need to do to build a search engine from scra

There is a book called “Finding Out About” that I read a long time ago. It describes all aspects of what you would need to do to build a search engine from scratch. It provides details on storage and retrieval algorithms and so on. It’s dated and would need to be revised but the fundamentals are there.