Five Ways to Make Your Own Search Engine
Tuesday March 11, 2008
If you're looking for more search engine customization, then building your own search engine is something you'll want to look into. Here are five different services that offer you the ability to personalize your own seaarch engine, customized to your unique preferences.
Read more in my article titled Five Ways to Make Your Own Search Engine.
I just use http://www.buildasearch.com
Good article. There are lots of products out there that can help build ones own web site. In addition to the ones you mentioned, I see a few commentators have tried to promote their own.
In general though, instead of being locked into a proprietary “product”, I like to stick with standardized, proven, scripting technologies such as perl, biterScripting, UNIX-Shell. The advantages of using these generalized scripting abilities are as follows.
1. The scripting languages can run in both real-time and batch modes. They can even run as part of your web search portal and get real time data.
2. Hiring, training, managing your staff will be easier, since they will be learning and using a generalized scripting language, and not some very specialized “package”.
3. Since you will be developing the scripts, you have proprietary rights over them, and you are building up sellable assets with these scripts over time.
4. Since you develop the scripts yourself, you have full control over them, and can modify them easily as requirements change with time.
5. Scripting languages cost way less than correspoding “products”.
Hope this helps.