Making a search engine!

I might be interested in making a search engine, but I got a few questions that need to be answerd.

How much bandwith would you use monthy/ daily etc... Would 2TB be enough or way to less.

Does it take a lot of diskspace as well?

Where can I get a script for a search engine.
Free or Paid.

All the questions I got for now, hope to get them answered.
Sorry if it's in the wrong section.

 

2TB a year is enough if you have that many visitors. 90% of sites don't use more than 10 GBs of bandwidth.

 

wow ok. Thanks

 

And, don't forget, you can always upgrade.

 

Yeah. Ok thanks. You know any good scripts as well?

 

You should be familar with the source code of your search engine. Nobody make search engines. you may find open source bots - most of them use Java Lucene for indexing and searching, but it's not for the faint- hearted

It's a very big idea that needs many brains - not just one

Good luck any way

 

PMed you a lil sumthin sumthin

 

Got it, thanks man

 

You can look at http://www.dataparksearch.org/

 

If you're talking about crawling the web and downloading the files with your own search engine you'll find 2TB gone very fast indeed. If all your doing is serving results from an existing search engine, 2TB is loads! Do a search for nutch. Its probably the most comprehnsive search engine script around, for free

As for diskspace, if your keeping a cache to serve, you'll find yourself pushed for any kind of decent index with anything under 6TB. Depends how you crunch and compress the data.

 

Thanks for the info.Yes I'll problably take info, from google, yahoo and other search engines. But thanks again, I appreciate it, everybody!