You’re Canadian? That’s pretty hilarious, I am too. It must be something they put in the Timbits.
For promotion, I’d recommend picking the most technically interesting part of your implementation, something that’s really clever, and then making a one page writeup for Paged Out magazine about it (https://pagedout.institute/). They regularly have interesting stuff to read, and they have a pretty decent amount of readers. You could write something longer and send it in to 2600 magazine too, they’d probably be interested even if it was an overview of the project.
Maybe the engine should be bigger first though so people are more enthused when they try it. I think 1 billion pages is around where a search engine starts to seem more normal: that’s about how much Marginalia has. How much space on disk does your index take up right now? Would you say the bottleneck is more the hard drive space or the crawling speed?
For promotion, I’d recommend picking the most technically interesting part of your implementation, something that’s really clever, and then making a one page writeup for Paged Out magazine about it (https://pagedout.institute/). They regularly have interesting stuff to read, and they have a pretty decent amount of readers. You could write something longer and send it in to 2600 magazine too, they’d probably be interested even if it was an overview of the project.
Maybe the engine should be bigger first though so people are more enthused when they try it. I think 1 billion pages is around where a search engine starts to seem more normal: that’s about how much Marginalia has. How much space on disk does your index take up right now? Would you say the bottleneck is more the hard drive space or the crawling speed?