Hi, at the moment i'm building my first site. At first i though i can build my own search engine but after i ask my friend, who's program coder. He told me that is very hard to build my own search engine and you must have a staff to keep your search engine update at all time and is easier to use google search engine and install it in to my site. So i been doing some research and i found tons of site using google or bing search engine instead of building their own. For example, mashable,ehow,techcrunch,aol,etc.....soo i would like to know it's really that hard to build my own?? and do i need to keep it update at all time?? cant we program to let them update my them self?? also this site will be maintenance only by me not as big organization.....i would be very appreciate if someone can help me with these question. Thank you
Haha - don't even bother making your own search engine! If all you need is users to be able to search on your website, just use something like the Google site search. It's quite customisable and free, or you can make it better and pay a small sum of money for it (still cheaper than hiring a developer). And this way you get more control over search results too.
I don't know about building one, but you need to learn how to use one - this isn't going to get an answer in the Ad words forum - try Programming or Site and Server Admin
Thanks for clearing my doubt Taylor and magda but if you don't mind me asking one more question. Can google search be customize like vimeo search engine? I try to do it like them. I think their search engine is pretty cool and they separate clearly in each section like video,group,people,etc cause my site is similar to them but notthing to do with the video sharing. Thanks again. Also sorry with my grammar, im not english native speaker but im trying my best and sorry if i asked some stupid question im really new with the building site kind of thing
If your website will run off a database then it isn't very hard to create a basic search function for your website and it's contents. But if you are talking about creating your own search engine for the web then this would be far more difficult and cost lots of $$$
You seem to be talking at cross purposes..... to build a search engine (ie rival of Google) then its exceptionally difficult and unless you have more money than sense your unlikely to want to go down that route. Once you've got past the programming aspect your going to basically need to buy a complete data centre to have enough servers to index, store, rank and search any significant volumes. To add a search function to your own site is different however. Google does offer a solution from adding a standard google search box to your site to as far as having your own black box with google software installed on it (though the black box is actually green). These are great if you have massive websites with lots of contributors and covering a very wide range of topics. On the other hand, if you have a normal site, say an ecommerce site with a couple of dozen content pages plus a few hundred product pages Google would be good but potentially overkill. Assuming the site is fully powered by a db driven CMS then a simple site seach can be implimented easily (many CMSs come with one built in) but the "ranking" of results is potentially not as "accurate" but then again it can also be easier to add a weighting for pages you want to push.
From a Search Engine User point of view, if you are going to build your own search engine and maintained by only you, just please make sure that your visitor will make the most of the result. User like me will keep coming back if the result is pretty good and usable. I had tried using different search engine aside from Google, Bing and Yahoo. But the best so far is Google. Especially after they made the filter on the left side for Everything, Image, Video, Blog etc. And they produce quality search engine result and a wide range of site. It does not matter if you use Google or made your own search engine as long as it give the best result.