What I need is hard to describe but I will do the best I can. I need a custom search engine that will allow a user to type in a question (for example "What is 2 plus 2") and when they click submit have it bring them to an answer page. The difference between this and a regular search engine is that it will not go to a results page with different links and descriptions for other sites, but an answer page that will just say Answer: 4. I need to have some kind of admin section where I can add questions and answers. I have very little programming experience so I figured I would need to outsouce this. Can anyone tell me if they can do this and if so how much $ and also some info about how it would work. Or if anyone has seen anything like this let me know. Thanks.
Would this search engine have to look at the query, and determine the user is looking for the answer to 2 + 2, or is it JUST going to look up entries you've added (I.E., if you've entered "what is 2 + 2" and "4" as a question/answer pair, does it have to know "2 + 2 is what?" too?)? The latter I can hack up for you cheaply, no problems there. BUT, if you want the former, you're going to need a big team and a few million dollars (see wolfram alpha) .
Yeah, I agree with carolynheath, if you want to build a "Yahoo Answers" Q&A style search engine, the budget wouldn't be horrible, but if you want to hack and/or pull from the top Q&A from Yahoo Answers, use that as a foundation and then go edit entries then thats a bit more complicated. Do you have a budget or deadline for this project?
I want something similar to yahoo answers find an answered question. I dont want users to have to wait for an answer from another user I want an instant answer that I have already added and an error page if I havent. I will add most questions manually but if there is any way to use yahoo API and have questions and "best answers" from yahoo automatically added that would be awesome. As for math type questions I would need what google has when you type in what is 2+2 and before the results it says 2+2=4. This would have to be some kind of calculator feature like they have because obviously I cant manually add every math problem.