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I think it indexes the entire string, no? or would that be too many combinatorics, idk.



Yes, it must, let's be exhaustive because we can and because the problem is solvable and because someone must do it.

Have you accidentally searched Google for a long URL and seen it come up? It is actively caching stuff all the time, and that cache just grows and grows, and it must be a pretty beautiful megastructure that you can run queries against.




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