How can I create a search engine?

How can I create my own search engine? I don't want to compete with any of the others, not that it's possible or anything. I just want to have my own.

Any ideas? Are there scripts for this?

I have a great name in mind.

Thanks in advance.

Nick

 

Rolloy.com or something like that rolly.com, im lazy. Allows you to make your own.. What do you want it for?

Do you want a spidering se or a meta-searching, shopping, local, news, any ideas? LOL. It is a lot harder than you think. I started my SE back in Januaray of 2004 and it isn't even up Right now.. So yea..

 

I want it just to say I have one.

It doesn't have to be complex and I don't care if it uses other search results (if thats legal). I just want one that I can set as my homepage and use for searches.

 

To me this is kind of dumb.. Just me..

 

Why don't you use Google API to provide web search feature on your site? You will be limited to only 1000 queries per day. But it's worth trying as well as feasible.

 

If you know some good programming than you can Use Lucene library. It is the best open source library for creating indexes and than retreiving information. Though it is mainly in Java but it's also availabe in C++/Python.Lucene is far more efficient than having flat file or simple relational databses. Lucene is used in search engines created by many universities.

@sufyaan - Are you a fan of Daniel Vettori ?

 

use google search box (didn't read this post earlier, I don't think so that you are in the mood of using lucene )

 

Try Google customizable free search:
http://www.google.com/services/free.html

I use it at Lures.info. Heres an example

I use the Google API at Golexa.com

 

If you want it really customized, and on its own domain, google for a program called sphider, really awsome stuff.

 

Wow, very cool Riboflavin thanks

 

Nick take a look at http://www.isearchthenet.com/isearch/ a good search engine with spider functionality.

 

Nutch, if you're planning on doing some serious SE work (millions of pages).

 

Sphider looks awesome - I think I am going to play around with it. Thanks Riboflavin.

BTW - the link is http://cs.ioc.ee/~ando/sphider/

 

It might be easier to create a search engine but it could be tougher to maintain it.

poseidon - You are right. I'm a big fan of Daniel Vettori.

 

No problem, let me know if you have any questions about it I am pretty familiar with it now.

 

I'm trying http://www.phpdig.net/ here, but sphyder does look a lot better!

 

If you want to make your own search engine, i suggest your learn php.

 

I just wrote a MySQL Boolean Search engine for my Amazon Book Store. The typical table only has about 5K rows max. There are two full text indexed fields.

So far it seems crisp and returns relevant results . I'll let ya know what happens when I deploy it on all my domains.

 

Definitely interested in checking it out!

 

I'll PM ya a URL if ya wanna try and beat it up?