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so, what do you think one needs to have inorder to be able have and support a personal search engine. here's some of the things i think one needs - what additional stuff does one need - please comment
5. what else ??? Some Questions:
More questions will be added later Cheers :-)) |
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A site with a .com domain falls under US laws even if the owner is not US based or the site isn't hosted in the US. http://www.zdnet.com.au/com-beholden-to-maryland-law-339332813.htm I wouldn't recommend a .com if you're not in the US. One person can definitely do it as proven by Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of DuckDuckGo. Some useful links can be found here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3771300 if you are interested in the code. Thanks for the HN news link. Will definitely go through the docs/links mentioned there. Will also check out duckduckgo docs. what are the options for a non-US owner - i don't understand the law stuff in-depth; just have an idea. Will these laws be applicable to other countires sometime in the future - if countries tie-up ??? Thanks once again :-)) You'll have to check which, if any, laws apply to each specific TLD. I only know about .com because it was briefly mentioned in one of these lectures http://cs75.tv/2010/fall/ I think. And there was the recent Megaupload thing. That's about the extent of my knowledge of laws of TLDs. Sorry. |
Any particular reason you want to gather requirements for a search engine?
@charlzz - well the course name says "Building a search engine" - and now that the course is over - wondering if it is really this simple. Personally i believe that a single person should be able to create a search engine with lots of innovations.
But, then when you look out in the market - you see that there are very few search engines - obviously one factor is the cost of maintenance - otherwise there would have been hundreds of search engines out there.
i am pretty pumped out to try out something on my own - hence before i jump into it i would like to know what one needs to build a search engine - not only that - how can one sustain for a long period considering the costs and hardware issues that one could face.
i just want to know whether its worth trying to build a search engine with new innovative ideas.
cheers :-))
I think, once you start, you'll see it's a big challenge. I think the first thing you really need to think about is what you want the search engine to excel at. It's easy to say "I want to be innovative", but if you have no particular ideas on how to be innovative, then you're stuck right at the start.
hi charlzz - yes i do know its a challenge and by "innovative" - i mean implementing ideas that are not in production or market and I do have such few ideas.
But before i start, i would like to know whether its worth to implement a search engine catering to a specific domain or a type. I dont see the software implementation an issue - its the hardware costs and its maintenance - rest can be managed. If money becomes a bottle-neck - then its kind of useless. I would rather build something based on existing search engine - rather than a search engine from scratch.
Its like saying i want to build a space-station; without understanding the investment aspect of it. Even if one has great ideas to build a space-station, it requires huge amount of investment/money to build and maintain it.
And that's what i am trying to get at - whats the overall cost to build a search engine. Software part is ok - its the hardware and its maintenance.
Anyways i think this may be the wrong place to post such a question.
Thanks n Cheers :-))