alt Hacker NewsI think the idea is that they could store the data in BigQuery, and point users of the site there.
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tekne • yesterday at 10:51 PM
There is also the deep magic...
PunchyHamster • yesterday at 8:00 PM
The crawlers would have still just hammered their site though, right?
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Sure, but now you're moving the site from "Free data presented in a pleasant way to view" to a "pay-as-you-go database". Your audience shifts dramatically, and you lose the ability to share the data you're trying to present.