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I suspect running a small search engine creates a built-in advantage, because the SEO experts won't be trying to manipulate your results.


Late, but SEO gaming does not explain these observations from sibling comments:

- Not showing loads of valid results when looking for UN documents and instead just return 40 or so out of thousands: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42288776

- Returning something we absolutely did not ask for in a verbatim query: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42278753




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