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by StephenAmar
705 days ago
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Well that's fun. I was the TL of the GSA platform team and you are mostly spot on.
You are missing the whole crawling/indexing & security parts though.
the GWS on the GSA was, tbh, one of the simplest component. Each GSA had a set of unique BIOS/root password generated during bootstrap though. |
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It was great to see how it was engineered, some parts were truly remarkable, my main interest was to learn about the ranking algorithm (not for SEO purposes, but because I thought it was fun and interesting).
We would have been in love 15 years ago when there was the GSA, sadly, our paths have separated :D