Awww you're gonna make me cry. ๐ญ
Thank you so much for the kind words! Means a lot.
Speaking of the "herculean" bit, I feel you might get a kick out of reading blog posts about my initial attempt earlier this year, which was to code the web crawler in pure bash scripts. Oh yeah, and I was also going through something of a database phobia. XD
https://benjaminhollon.com/musings/starting-work-on-a-search-engine/
https://benjaminhollon.com/musings/web-crawler-sort-order/
https://benjaminhollon.com/musings/this-shouldve-been-a-database/
https://benjaminhollon.com/musings/using-grep-to-increase-index-quality/
aaaand where I give in and decide to go with python: https://benjaminhollon.com/musings/announcing-clew-my-search-engine/
;)
(Yeah, I tend to forget hashtags existโฆ whoops! I will make a mental note for future releases like thisโฆ)
@amin
Are you familiar with Stract.com ? Another mostly-one-person search engine, still a bit Beta but already quite nice.