Plenty of people find it tasty. Is it $20 burger tasty? No. Is it more tasty than some $20 burgers? Yes. Does it taste like garbage to some people? Yes. Does it taste great to others? Yes.
Theoretically ES can scale that big, but isn't easy and takes a large team to manage. Just like at Google.
ES is a toolbox not something you can just use off the shelf. I think Elastic likes to make people think it is a off the shelf solution, but the defaults aren't great for many use cases. However ES can include pagerank, ML, BM25, etc in the ranking calculation but it requires search relevance expertise to make it all work together for any particular use case. And different use cases will need different ranking equations.
I don't think I said anything of the sort. Regardless, fiber is food for the microbes in the gut. Eating fiber from a diversity of sources is important as well as quantity.
Fiber being a type of carb is also found in other high carb foods like beans, whole grains, potatoes (with skin), and popcorn. Beans are the best source of fiber by a mile in terms of quantity.
Eat fiber. Meet the recommended amount and eat a diverse set of fiber which will feed different microbes in the gut. It will take some time for the gut to adjust to the new levels though. Expect gas, cramping, etc for a few days.
The internet and world wide web were both useful immediately since they were both a solution to a problem. Blockchain seems like a solution searching for a problem.
Posting on Reddit or HN is fine, but unlikely to be successful if that is all you do. Cold calling/emailing/linkedin and posting on forums like HN continuously can both help. The latter only works if your solution genuinely solves someone's problem otherwise it will come off spammy. If your solution has obvious keywords and those keywords aren't too expensive, then Google ads can be relatively cheap method to get started too.
Great job! How are the ads implemented and do they cover the costs? I'm thinking of building a similar search engine for a completely different domain. I am a bit concerned about paying for it though.
Maybe a few engineers are making that in SV, but the vast majority are under $200k for salary. With public companies that are doing well in the stock market, total compensation can certainly be $500k. But I think it is an important distinction to make that more than half is from equity and that equity is only lucrative while the company stock is doing well. If the stock market crashes or the company's stock gets in trouble, most of those engineers won't be making $500k.
There are companies that use BigQuery for analytics but their infra is in AWS. BigQuery has support for external tables to S3 now. The BigQuery transfer service can also move data from AWS pretty easily. I agree though, BigQuery is astonishingly good and makes both Snowflake and Redshift look like dinosaurs imo.