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The client only needs to get indexes for the specific search; if the index is just a list of TF-IDF term scores per document (which gets you a very reasonable start on search relevance) some extremely back-of-the-envelope math leads me to guess at an upper bound in the low tens of megabytes per (non-stopword) term, which seems doable for a client to download on demand.


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