[Search-l] Fwd: 10 People Powered Search Engines

[Aerik Sylvan]

On 8/6/07, Seth Ford <seth.ford at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> No offense but you design is all wrong. You have to take the approach of a
> search based interface make it look and Feel like Google or Yahoo but the
> content is editable.


No offense taken - when I started, I was creating dmoz in a wiki - Now I've
got a lot of ideas, but little time to write the code...

If you are looking for a half decent database based search engine for
> mediawiki http://www.dbsight.net has one that is very very easy to plug
> into mediawiki http://www.dbsight.com/search.do?indexName=freedb&templateName=free&q=Hello
> for an example query. It's not quite Nutch but it will give you everything
> you need to plug right in and create a easily configurable rage rank.
> Although you can do this with Lucene, they just add a layer that makes it
> very very easy to do. Like I said before Mahalo is as close as I have
> seen... It's design is open and pleasing. It seems more and more that if the
> first impression doesn't make you smile then it's probably not an app that
> you are going to use (just my opinion there, but I feel I like I know the
> sites and have the design skills to back it up).


No, I'm with you there too, and frankly, I'm not much of a UI guy... good to
know your weaknesses, I guess :-)  Thanks for the pointer to dbsight, but
for the time being, I think I'd rather wrestle with learning enough C++ to
use clucene than learn how to run a Java daemon in linux... For the record
(and to stray back on the topic of Wikia search a bit) I think using a C/C++
app to serve results is probably a a good strategy (good performance with
minimal resource usage) but to be honest, I'm a relative newbie to both C++
and Java.

Best Regards,
Aerik
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