- lots of stupid questions to the author from a guy who has no idea about search engines
- let us say I want to index every blog ever listed on HN
- should be a small subset of the 400 billion pages out there on the internet no?
- First I need to gather data, what do you use to load so many webpages rapidly? asyncio with aiohttp in python? are there better options?
- how do you handle proxies? rotation? are there libraries you recommend for this?
- what about pages that use cloudflare? or block your request or present a captcha or a challenge of some kind?
- what are the filetypes you collect? only html or media as well?
- where and in what format do you store all these collected files? flat file storage? duckdb? postgres? hstore? something else?
- what is the frequency at which you refresh each page? once a day? once a week? something else?
- what kind of pre-processing do you use on the collected data? remove extra spaces? special characters? some kind of complex regex pipeline? LLM?
- how do you match the incoming query with processed data? simple text matching? regex? vector embedding match? something else?
- let us say I want to index every blog ever listed on HN
- should be a small subset of the 400 billion pages out there on the internet no?
- First I need to gather data, what do you use to load so many webpages rapidly? asyncio with aiohttp in python? are there better options?
- how do you handle proxies? rotation? are there libraries you recommend for this?
- what about pages that use cloudflare? or block your request or present a captcha or a challenge of some kind?
- what are the filetypes you collect? only html or media as well?
- where and in what format do you store all these collected files? flat file storage? duckdb? postgres? hstore? something else?
- what is the frequency at which you refresh each page? once a day? once a week? something else?
- what kind of pre-processing do you use on the collected data? remove extra spaces? special characters? some kind of complex regex pipeline? LLM?
- how do you match the incoming query with processed data? simple text matching? regex? vector embedding match? something else?