A search index is often made of smaller independent pieces often called segments...

		francoismassot on July 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Writing your own search engine is hard (2004) A search index is often made of smaller independent pieces often called segments. So you can download & process progressively the data locally and upload it to an object storage. And run queries on it. That's what we did here for this project: https://quickwit.io/blog/commoncrawl Also an interesting blog post here: https://fulmicoton.com/posts/commoncrawl/

Huh, that's pretty expensive. For comparison, my search engine has an operational cost of ~$50/mo.