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I was just idly threatening to do something, not actually starting a venture to do it. But, in any case, lets go with your numbers for running costs: in 2024 m

I was just idly threatening to do something, not actually starting a venture to do it. But, in any case, lets go with your numbers for running costs: in 2024 money, what is your estimation of the running costs? I ask because there have been a number of new search engines pop up, and they have nowhere near the expenditure power of google, yet they still have devoted followings. > The second challenge is your ranking. Now that you've become the dominant search engine with your awesome ranking system [snipped problems that follow] TBH, that's the best kind of problems to have. Lets become dominant first before we say there's no point in becoming dominant.

acatton 2y ago
Most search engine popping up are just a rebranding of bing and yandex. There is a good article about it: https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/ https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-... Regarding your question of cost, if you buy the cheapest hardware possible, and manage it yourself, because you don't want to pay AWS' premium, for storage (again, assuming to discard 90% of the pages, and only do english) you'll be at least at €80k (12 × €3000 disk servers with 300 × €150 HDDs) of upfront cost, then, if you colocate at Hetzner, just for storage, you'll bet at €500/month + ~€3k of electricity that you need to pay yourself. My gut feeling is that this would cost (only 10% of the English-speaking web) ~€150k of upfront cost and €5k/month to run. Assuming you buy the cheapest everything, and do your own admin sys. And this is not forecasting growth, serving ads, etc...