[the_mitsuhiko]

Unless a shabbat goy is employed (who would have to be human) I don’t think you can have a compliant search engine.

The machine can work at any point of the week but a jew cannot operate it on shabbat. A non jew could, but not acting on a direct command.

The rules are quite watertight. Siri and co. are a no-go and there are no obvious ways to adapt smart assistants that would restore functionality. Anything that’s not preprogrammed is not possible.

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Thinking of elevators which stop at every floor on shabbat, maybe the search engine ought to run on a timeout, returning results for all the "most common searches" (such as the auto-fill suggestions for each letter?) on some interleaved schedule.

(I'm not concerned with electricity here so much as with "בורר", selection.)

[LegitShady]

if search engines knew what you wanted to look at before you looked at them they wouldn't be necessary.