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-wit

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...