Reflections and Thoughts of Brian
Posted on: August 28, 2024, 3:30 am
Fynd has reached its first short-term milestone of 10 million pages indexed—a great accomplishment since starting the project several months ago.
Yesterday, I also overcame a major hurdle in performance scaling. The most glaring problem search engines face is scale, being able to index hundreds of millions of web pages or more to a database while maintaining speed. I am now confident that Fynd can scale to meet performance needs.
Going forward, I foresee handling spam sites as the most glaring issue. I cannot stress how easy it is to spot web pages, sites, and link farms built to try and game the system from a search engine perspective. I don’t know why people waste their time and money; it’s futile.
The next milestone is 20 million pages, where we hope to release a public beta so people can get accustomed to Fynd.