halbritt

Come to California and split lanes on the freeway where you can see into everyone's car as you go by. Nearly everyone is staring at their phone.

AVs can't come soon enough.

As for the costs of running crawlers, indexers and search serving systems, yes, it's not for the faint of heart, but it's less than you think it is thanks to the wonders of AWS and Spark. It's basically S3 costs, compute on Spark and Databricks, and serving off SSDs.

Less than I'd think and Databricks? My guess is that used in any meaningful way, their costs scale substantially relative to revenue.

What is your approach to guaranteeing search quality?