bigguy

Hey yall. Lately I've been bored, so I thought I'd make a small search engine type thing. What I was wanting to do, was make "search category words". Like I'll give an example, I conducted an experiment on google, of what it returned when I searched for will Ferrel's landlord video. I had hits from his website, new's channels, and forums that had posting's on it. So I was thinking of making a way to narrow down searches to a category so you just get hits in the category you specify instead of more hits from a bunch of websites. Below is an example.

I want to watch will ferrel's landlord video, so i would go: Comedy:Will Ferrel Landlord video, and it woudl return links to the video so I could watch it , instead of gettign hits from news channels, or forums. The website owner could customize their keys words or whatever they want, and the site owner that wants their website for people to search could customize what category to put it in, instead of just using metawords, I forget what they are called. It's basically like google's define: word feature, but customizable. I've also thought about adding user account avaliablity for users to register and then shorten the words so instead of using Comedy: search string, they could custmize that down to cy or cdy or w/e they wanted.

So do yall think this would help more people get what they want, or do you think it's not worth the trouble?

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DaWei

I think that if you think about this long enough to appreciate the factors involved, and the complexity of the code, you will run screaming to the Ozarks and hide under the quilt on some rural lady's clothesline.

You might want to work for Google for a year or so, then branch out.

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kruptof

It seems like a good idea but maybe instead of starting from scratch you can build on top of what big SE offer.

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Booooze

Not a bad idea, but couldn't the system be abused? Couldn't a website owner just categorize their website under every category then it would get more hits? Unless you had some sort of moderating tool. Don't know what else you had in mind though.

bigguy

Well you could either charge for each category, the website posts under, or customize for when a website tries post there website again, it looks at the domain list, and verifies if this website has already posted once, or not. I'm still drawing out some design spec's, and what if's. But I'm bored got some vacation time, and I've already got my house and stuff looking okay, so i can't think of much else to do.

Also dawei, I don't really run, it's more like a fast wobble. Last time I ran, I was arrested for indecent exposure.

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