In 2025, you can’t even fit Google search in a single data center, something that’s been true for a long time.
Still, with a little clever resourcing and a lot of work, you can get pretty close to a modern Google-esque experience using a machine roughly the size of that original Google server. You can even house it in your laundry room.
That’s where Ryan Pearce decided to put his new search engine, the robust Searcha Page, which has a privacy-focused variant called Seek Ninja. If you go to these web pages, you’re hitting a server next to Pearce’s washer and dryer. Not that you could tell from the search results.
“Right now, in the laundry room, I have more storage than Google in 2000 had,” Pearce says. “And that’s just insane to think about.”
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