Is it Good Idea to Start New Search Engine?

1) Is it good idea to start new search engine?
2) General or niche search engine?
3) How much investment needed?
4) Is there any good script for crawler / spider search engine?
5) Should anyone buy search engine script or create based on own idea with help of programmer?
6) How big server needed and how much cost monthly?

Please kindly provide your suggestion and ideas.
Thanks

 

I'd have to agree. Don't think it's really worth starting a new search engine. Everyone uses Google/Yahoo/Bing and the investment needed to compete with those guys is pretty steep. I wouldn't even know where to start, lol.

 

You need to answer only one question if you want to start new search engine. Like @digitalpoint point up, why would someone use your search engine and not Google/Bing/Yandex? Better search results (more accurate)? Better privacy (duckduckgo.com)? Some new invention?

There were couple of tries lately, like Blekko (blekko.com), Volunia (volunia.com) but they never take some significant market share or they even close business.

So, my answer would be, no it's not good idea. Except you really have some new invention to share.

 

Thank you all for your suggestion. We will post soon to provide more detail.

 

To OP ,you must launch your search engine (it must have some unique features).Google and Facebook were also built with time, they were not born strong.

I cannot answer your all questions but i know if you have idea ,you must work on it.

 

As Shawn pointed out, why would anyone use something over google?
Years ago I read a paper on how google started, and what motivated those guys, and moreover what made them so popular. You must read it too. I think it was titled "Anatomy of a Search Engine".

Good luck with the project!

 

It's not a great idea to start a search engine when the giants (Google) is already leading, however you can make a different search tool focusing on a niche.

 

The only search engines I would ever consider to be of any use might be niches such as job, property (sale and rent), domain and site sales, and or other similar type of classified searches where the script scrapes the information from multiple sources. There might also be room for other niche search engines that focus on different languages / countries / regions.

Regarding "5) Should anyone buy search engine script or create based on own idea with help of programmer?"
firstly, any business plan that relies on an off the shelf script is doomed to fail. Generally, if you can afford it, so can everyone else in the world. Taking a coder to create one that you can buy off the shelf is also a silly idea. It might be better to talk to a few developers about taking an off the shelf script, and paying to have it hardened, as well as completely customized with new UNIQUE features -> there has to be something that makes it unique apart from changing the site title and the site logo.

As for the costs, you simply cannot build a website and hope for the best. you need marketing money. If you were to attempt to create another google, you would need soo much money, that if you had that much money you would never need to work again, let alone want to risk it on a website.

 

We are planning for niche, anyone want to be partner with our business?

 

From the status of search engine competition today, starting a new search engine will be very tough due to the requirements that will cope up with the evolving industry. You will need to study on how search engine works and the behavior of the users as well as its new metrics on how to determine the positions of the websites in the search results.

 

Agree! Creating a new search engine is definitely not possible because those 3 major search engines have been gone a long long way already. It's really hard for a competition.

 

Well, you can have one but it needs a lot of work and maintenance.