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Can you vibe code an entire search engine? This ex-Googler tried.
Hugh Williams, a former Google engineering leader, used Claude Code to build a search engine called Zettair that indexes 1.5 million Wikipedia articles. The project includes features like autosuggest and AI-generated summaries, with Williams relying entirely on Claude Code for coding while leveraging his past expertise in information retrieval systems.
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