The hard part is in being able to translate a search query into a list of pages.
And that requires a level of sophistication that far exceeds a laptop.
Any machine that can do that will be a similar spec to what you need for serving queries. Not as fast as google does it, but a good amount of them.
It's akin to saying the magic behind OpenGPT is the dataset.
The comparable goal to the article is to be a search engine, not to fight google for best results.
