A programmer wants to take on data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/google” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/google”>Google Search, starting with two PCs that sit in his laundry room. Ryan Pearce, who worked in both data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/enterprise” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/enterprise”>enterprise software and game development roles, was curious about what it takes to build a search engine. According to data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.fastcompany.com/91396271/searcha-page-seekninja-diy-search-engines” data-url=”https://www.fastcompany.com/91396271/searcha-page-seekninja-diy-search-engines” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>Fast Company, Pearce built two search engines: data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://searcha.page/” data-url=”https://searcha.page/” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>Searcha Page and its incognito variant, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://seek.ninja/” data-url=”https://seek.ninja/” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>Seek Ninja. These two engines both have a database with over 2 billion entries. Although it’s less than half a percent of Google’s 400-billion-strong search index,…
