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Turing_Machine on April 17, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tell HN: I will build you a working MVP for $2,345

I know you were joking, but I once had a guy complain about just that. I contributed a (very basic) search feature to some FOSS software and a user complained because it "wasn't as good as Google".

My response was something like "If I could write a search engine as good as Google in my spare time, I'd be living a lifestyle somewhat more luxurious than the one I actually have."

bra-ket on April 17, 2014 [–]

you could have used Google API to index that site, https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/api

Turing_Machine on April 18, 2014 | [–]

Unfortunately a lot of the users had and have proprietary/sensitive content, so opening it up to Google wasn't an option.

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