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Well that's fun. I was the TL of the GSA platform team and you are mostly spot on. You are missing the whole crawling/indexing & security parts though. the GWS on the GSA was, tbh, one of the simplest component.

Each GSA had a set of unique BIOS/root password generated during bootstrap though.

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I edited the message, sorry for that mistake, I had assumed it was the same everywhere.

It was great to see how it was engineered, some parts were truly remarkable, my main interest was to learn about the ranking algorithm (not for SEO purposes, but because I thought it was fun and interesting).

We would have been in love 15 years ago when there was the GSA, sadly, our paths have separated :D

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