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http://www.80legs.com/ http://www.80legs.com/ - jdrock, founder, is around here on HN

• jacquesm 17y ago
  That's extremely interesting. Thank you! The funny thing is while coding that stuff the bigger problems were financial and the enormous amount of cruft that is the web. The actual search engine wasn't that hard at all.
  • jdrock 17y ago
    Yep - that's exactly it. Setting up the infrastructure to handle large, web-scale content analysis is the real challenge. (Shameless plug alert) That's why we setup 80legs: to help everyone not called Google/Yahoo/Microsoft to have comparable capabilities when it comes to this.
    • jacquesm 17y ago
      I'd hate to see your power & network bill :) But I think that once you have enough customers the cost of 'crawling' goes down for every new customer you sign up because you only need to crawl a page once and you can sell the crawled result to many customers. Or do I misread your model and is every page crawled over and over again for every user ?
    • jdrock 17y ago
      Right now we crawl again for each user, but as we scale up we're going to start doing some caching and providing data streams.
  • litewulf 17y ago
    (This intrigues me. I had imagined the long tail queries were really hard. I mean, the places where Google succeeds and Bing fails, or vice-versa seem to me the "gaps" where for whatever reason its difficult to get things right, be they for spam reasons or scoring difficulties. Could you define "good"?)