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How Hard Is It To Write Your Own Search Engine?

Posted by timothy on Wednesday May 12, 2004 @02:49AM from the can-barely-search-my-car dept.

kha0z writes "Anna Patterson, from Stanford University, overviews the difficulties that have to be overcome when attempting to develop and/or implement a search engine solution in this article in the ACM Queue Magazine. The article covers many issues dealing from data sources, to indexing, to ranking. How does Google make it look so easy?"

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Thanks for the link by christopherfinke · 2004-05-12 05:25 · Score: 2, Funny

Thanks for the link to Google, submitter. I never would have found it otherwise!
1. Re:Thanks for the link by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-12 11:35 · Score: 2, Funny
  
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