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1. manque+(OP)[view] [source] 2022-02-08 22:20:36
The I/O cost would be more than any loot you find !.

Jokes apart, it is not easy even for Google in-house teams such a query scanning all their drive folders would be very, very expensive computationally.

Most files are stored as binary blobs, i.e. bin formats like PDF etc with some level of compression. Retrieval costs and file read costs for even most common formats can be expensive and slow

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