What if you were trying to start Google today (assuming it didn't exist), and you had to bootstrap with maybe only $500 available to spent per month? How would you guys do it?
I presume you're talking about hardware budget. You probably wouldn't get very far with such a low budget, but I think your question is how to get the most bang for your buck. The answer is with dedicated hardware, especially for computationally expensive apps. $500/month dedicated hardware will beat the pants off of $500/month of EC2 instances for example, but it comes with the cost of being less flexible.
Well this would be a place to start... http://commoncrawl.org.
It would be interesting to see a solution to the data center requirement that uses some adhoc bit-torrent like system.
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What if you were trying to start Google today (assuming it didn't exist), and you had to bootstrap with maybe only $500 available to spent per month? How would you guys do it?
I presume you're talking about hardware budget. You probably wouldn't get very far with such a low budget, but I think your question is how to get the most bang for your buck. The answer is with dedicated hardware, especially for computationally expensive apps. $500/month dedicated hardware will beat the pants off of $500/month of EC2 instances for example, but it comes with the cost of being less flexible.
Well this would be a place to start... http://commoncrawl.org. It would be interesting to see a solution to the data center requirement that uses some adhoc bit-torrent like system.
Read up on the history of DuckDuckGo; AFAIK it was one person in the beginning.
Amortized over 3/5 years or non-amortized? Different answers :)
Hold out with a handful of servers until Google bought you.