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A real search engine costs billions in hardware costs alone.

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Actually, no. Cuil did it for about $50 million. They failed due to lack of a revenue model, but they did get search working, sort of.

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There are only 2 real search engines capable of indexing the entire Web: google and bing. Google search employs about 1 million servers.