Hi everyone
I have developed a search engine which works similar to Google but allows the webmaster to index websites of their choice. In other words, you can specify which sites to spider and group them under categories. I have also set up a main gateway ([url]http://www.minigoogle.co.uk
My theory is that people only want results relevent to a website they are searching. So if you are looking at a property website you only want results relating to the property industry. My search engine software allows the webmaster to control this process. The index is stored in a mysql database and uses forked threads to speed up the spidering. The results pages use templates which can be designed to match any website.
I have not released the software for sale yet but recent tests have proved positive. If anyone is interested in this project feel free to email me at [email][email protected]
I have also set up a demo website (one possible use of the software) at [url]http://www.propertygoogle.co.uk
Hope to hear lots of thoughts on this new approach from all you people out there. Interestingly, I approached Google with the concept but the refused to sign an NDA so I refused to give them further details (hence the minigoogle domain).
Cheers
Jim