That is great news.<p>Most of the time I'm annoyed at the projects that manage to get funding, because generally the people that do the work don't have the time nor the inclination to fill paperwork for getting the grants, and the people that have that time and inclination, rarely do the work. So, in my experience, the grants get dispatched to mostly worthless causes that produce very little benefit. I'm very glad that this is not the case here.
Very cool, /u/marginalia_nu. From one web crawler enthusiast to another.<p>But I can’t really call you an enthusiast any more if you’re getting paid!
Using a dedicated on-disk file format, that is, a custom index has much advantages, optimizations opportunities. I thought using an existing OKVS would be an advantage from a time to market perspective, but it is not the case :)
Congratulations on this! As a hobbyist search engine enthusiast I’ve really enjoyed following your project and blog posts these last few years. I’m looking forward to what the next year brings!