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Building a Simple Search Engine That Works

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279 points freediver | 1 comments | 17 Nov 25 03:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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entropoem ◴[17 Nov 25 11:15 UTC] No.45952620[source]▶
Searching in general is difficult. It is really a difficult thing.

If you haven't felt it, look at companies like Apple, Microsoft, or "The most important AI research lab in the world" OpenAI, for example, their products have terrible search features even though their resources - money - technology can be considered top-notch.

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1. shortrounddev2 ◴[17 Nov 25 12:30 UTC] No.45953022[source]▶
idk if that argument really makes sense. A lot of AI chatbot companies have terrible or broken webapps and backend servers because it's not what they really care about. They put billions into their AI models, not their search features. I think the shittiness of their search features is symptomatic of the company's incentives, not necessarily the difficulty of the problem.