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An index of enough of the web to keep 90% of users happy can be built for ~$10k of storage.
The last 10% quickly gets very expensive tho.
sneak
on Sept 1, 2020
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Hard drives are cheap enough that storing the index itself is the least expensive part of building it. Engineer time to make that index usable for a search engine is that much money every week.
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The last 10% quickly gets very expensive tho.