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andaiyesterday at 10:36 PM1 replyview on HN

Interesting. How much does it cost to build a search index in current year? Also, how do you get around the fact that everyone's blocking bots?

I've been thinking of making a "small web" indexer so I'm curious about that. I'm seeing even tiny websites being behind CloudFlare, Anubis etc. these days. (And everyone complaining they're getting hammered by mysterious distributed HTTP traffic!)


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JK-Swizzleyesterday at 10:44 PM

I have been working on an indexer for myself using data from common crawl. They do all the leg work and just host the outcome.