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Parent Post: What is up w search?
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1/26/2026, 1:25:43 AM
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I stopped looking. late 90s I wrote a search engine based on the Google phd thesis. Theirs was so novel an approach I tried it myself. G introduced site search and I read the thesis, for side money I built websites, mid to late 90s. That customer got a home built hacked up G search engine. The idea worked, I got results close to "google site search." It was the concept of %%barrels%% which caught my eye, fantastic idea, all over AI today. Unfortunately it was DARPA and not Page/Brin. Barrels have morphed into "retrieval theory" and now "vector retrieval" and "appropriate nearest neighbor." This is all part of the "Theory of Attractors" from physics. I dove into it in another thread (if search here worked). http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf Anyway, barrels. That is "forward index," which another word for inference. These are both parallel processing topics, which have fucked computer processors until Nvidia applied its graphics processing to all of this stuff, solving the inference problem (with enough data centers, haha).
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