On: Show HN: Never lose a website again

[gwern]

What does indexing mean here? I'm not sure what it means to 'index' but not 'store' webpages as the frontpage says.

[pbhjpbhj → gwern]

I assumed they meant that they extracted meta-data about the page (page mentions "Winnie the Pooh" for example, like a book index) and kept that associated with a key (eg URL) but didn't actually store the content per se. I was hoping the answer to my question would include that sort of detail - what's stored and where.

[flippyhead → pbhjpbhj]

That's exactly right. The indexed content is stored (as an inserted index) but not the plain text.