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dpoloncsakyesterday at 7:33 PM2 repliesview on HN

The crawlers would have still just hammered their site though, right?


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primitivesuaveyesterday at 10:42 PM

Yes, if I wanted to put a nice HTML interface over the query results then I would still end up with the same problem where some combinatoric explosion of query parameters to the `/search` endpoint, most of which are cache misses, leads to many many TBs of network egress.

pavel_lishinyesterday at 7:52 PM

I think the idea is that they could store the data in BigQuery, and point users of the site there.

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