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by m-i-l 2021 days ago
Looks promising. But how do we know you are doing your own indexing and not simply buying in the results from Google or Bing like pretty much all of the other search startups? And if you are doing your own indexing, I see you include some very large sites like wikipedia which is going to cost a lot of money to index on a regular basis, so how are you going to pay for this in a sustainable way?
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Our results are different from other search engines. Wikipedia has regular database dumps (https://dumps.wikimedia.org/), which is a relatively low cost to index. Overall, our scale is currently small and the cost is manageable.