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by michaelmior 1094 days ago
I would argue it makes no sense to index the vast majority of content without good search. If your search is good enough, you can index everything and then surface only the good stuff at query time.
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Indexing trillions of messages is outrageous.
That's why "archive to the web and let Google handle it" is a good solution.