[Search-l] more than just interoperability

[jer]

> So, here it is:  Getting data from existent social bookmarking  
> services may be an option we should consider.  Think of it -  
> aggregating data from del.icio.us, stumbleupon, etc.  Now, I can't  
> imagine how we'd get Yahoo to give us the data from del.icio.us,  
> but maybe there are other providers who would be willing to do  
> this.  Or perhaps we look at paying them for it, at least enough to  
> cover their bandwidth and other overhead.
>
> Anybody got an ideas around this type of thing?
>
> Yeah.. its a good way to find the actual interest of the people  
> thru social book marking, digg and many other social websites.. But  
> it all matters whether they are ready to release data open to such  
> open source search projects..

For the most part, all of those sites and all of that data *is* open,  
it just needs to be intelligently crawled and indexed.  They're great  
seed sites for keeping a crawler fresh.

Sure it would be nice to have it in a more digestible form, but it's  
all there already :)

Jer
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