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A server made out of Lego probably would not have been seen as the correct approach to the problem by an engineer at AltaVista a few years ago. Search engines by country is just a way of expressing the abstractions that are involved in chunking up search in a way that is orthogonal to building a service chunked around advertizing revenue, English, and Silicon Valley political philosophies.

Or to put it another way, 376k Wikipedia documents in Romanian is about 50% more than the number of articles in the last print version of Encyclopedia Britannica. The dismissal of their significance may express a worldview bubble that is endemic of Google and its business model.

Just because 376k Romanian documents is not enough to train a data center in how to sell chia pets to Bucharestians, doesn't mean that it is not a significant repository of information for actual human beings.