[sufehmi]

Originally posted by bloodjelly
Sounds like an ambitious task, sufehmi, to put it mildly

You're absolutely correct. And I'm not the best PHP coder either.

But if I can drive people's interest to this project, I think this project has a good chance to succeed.
Making it very easy to contribute is one of the trick (by enabling them to run the spider)

And I think I can get the project off the ground by my own, where hopefully it'll be interesting enough for others to join in.

especially considering that as of now phpDig can only spider one site at a time per database.

Yes, you're correct, it needs an additional module that's able to accept results from multiple spiders and incorporate that into the main index.

Also, and no offense, but why would you want to do this? Google's "domination" on search, most people agree, provides relevant information quickly and easily, giving useful results in a fair manner.

# One thing that everyone agree is that Google is among the most powerful entity in the Internet at the moment.

# At the moment they're doing a great job playing it fair (for most people), but there's no guarantee for the future.

# Google is excellent, but there are a few stuff that I (and no doubt others) would like to enhance.
(link farm anyone ? Google spammer ? etc)

# It will be one mighty interesting project

Do you plan on out-Googling Google? Everywhere you look some search engine is trying to top them, and they're spending millions and millions of dollars to do it. If they do, great, just as long as we still get relevant information. That's the only thing people want. So I guess my question is why would you want to compete with these big businesses, and why would you want to do something that many many other people have already almost done? I'm personally happy with my search results thus far.

I'd be a total idiot if I think that I can beat Google by myself.

But when people are working together, I think nothing is impossible.


Thanks,
Harry