Introducing Frinkiac, The Simpsons Search Engine Built by Rackers
Combining their fondness for the show with some pretty incredible technical talent, Rackspace employees Paul Kehrer and Sean Schulte, together with designer Allie Young, built Frinkiac, a Simpsons-specific search engine (named for the show’s bespectacled Professor Frink), which indexes some three million screencaps from the show’s 15 seasons, matching each and every quote with the exact moment it was uttered.
.. “And when we suddenly had 3,000 concurrent users doing nearly 100 searches per second, things got rather compute intensive,” Kehrer said, understatedly.