Comment on This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time

peter@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

What are the actual reasonable outcomes here:

  1. The search engine becomes successful and requires monetization to pay for the hosting/indexing costs
  2. The search engine does not become successful and the ever increasing cost of indexing the entire internet forces monetization or shut down
  3. You self host your own version, in which case you need to start indexing yourself (see problem #2)

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