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Re: Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room

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"The beefy CPU running this setup, a 32-core AMD EPYC 7532, underlines just how fast technology moves. At the time of its release in 2020, the processor alone would have cost more than $3,000. It can now be had on eBay for less than $200" why do I never get deals like that when I am shopping for the homelab on eBay?

You need to spend a lot of time looking through badly labeled offers, and be willing to buy from sellers with no reputation.

Re: Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room

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post #54

"The beefy CPU running this setup, a 32-core AMD EPYC 7532, underlines just how fast technology moves. At the time of its release in 2020, the processor alone would have cost more than $3,000. It can now be had on eBay for less than $200" why do I never get deals like that when I am shopping for the homelab on eBay?

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Re: Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room

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Well, I created my own domain index. I have not crawled every page inside domains, but it is not my goal.

I have 1542766 domains. Might not be much, but it is an honest work.

It is available as a github repo, so anybody that wants to start crawling has some initial data to kick off.

Links

https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database

Re: Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room

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Have you considered it's a good product that causes its users to become advocates?

Could also be a form of effort justification. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effort_justification

Re: Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room

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post #54

"The beefy CPU running this setup, a 32-core AMD EPYC 7532, underlines just how fast technology moves. At the time of its release in 2020, the processor alone would have cost more than $3,000. It can now be had on eBay for less than $200" why do I never get deals like that when I am shopping for the homelab on eBay?

I searched "AMD EPYC 7532" and there are a ton of listings for $150-$200. Are you just regretful that it wasn't like this when you were shopping parts for your homelab?

Re: Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room

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How much do you technologically relate to the average person on the street though? Every person I have seen (outside the tiny tech bubble) google something has just read the AI overview without skipping a beat.

That's worrisome since I've seen those be for-sure wrong a pretty high percentage of the time. [EDIT] Incidentally, are there any sites that do actual web search any more, better than Yandex? I'd rather avoid a Russian site if I can, but there are whole topics where it's impossible to find anything useful on heavily "massaged" allegedly-Web-search-but-not-really sites like Google and DDG (Bing), but I can find what I…

Google "Web" results (not the default results you get when you search) still seem okay for me. You can force them with the udm=14 url trick, or select the "Web" tab in the results. No AI, no images or shopping results, and slightly better text results.

Re: Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room

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Disclaimer: Not a Kagi user. Unlikely to use it. I just don’t understand people who get so upset that someone might like something enough to talk about liking it. So upset that they won’t ever try the thing. Like … ok I guess? You do you. It’s just a strange way to make decisions. At least this is just a consumer product. Worse is when people here say they make technical decisions using the same process. They’d black…

I get the impression it's the volume of the folks who sing its praises. There was a web3 crowd for a while, Bitwarden champions would show up to any mention of a password manager, and (ahem) some AI champions can be over the top In all of these cases, a reasonable counterpoint is that if it were that applicable for all audiences, one wouldn't need to sing its praises, it would sing its own praises

How does a password manager sing its own praises?

Re: Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room

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Have you considered it's a good product that causes its users to become advocates?

Could also be a form of effort justification. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effort_justification

> The effect is most likely to occur when there are no obvious reasons for performing the task. Because expending effort to perform a useless or unenjoyable task, or experiencing unpleasant consequences in doing so, is cognitively inconsistent (see cognitive dissonance), people are assumed to shift their evaluations of the task in a positive direction to restore consistency.

I’m not following you.

https://dictionary.apa.org/effort-justification

Re: Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room

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I was trying to do this in 2023! The hardest part about building a search engine is not the actual searching though, it is (like others here have pointed out), building your index and crawling the (extremely adversarial) internet, especially when you're running the thing from a single server in your own home without fancy rotating IPs. I hope this guy succeeds and becomes another reference in the community like the m…

Why can't crawling be crowd sourced? It would solve ip rotation and spread the load
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