[Search-l] more than just interoperability

[Aerik Sylvan]

On 6/1/07, jer <jeremie at jabber.org> wrote:
>
> 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 :)
>
>
I guess that's kind of what I was talking about - if you're stubborn and
clever enough you can crawl (scrape) just about anything - but getting some
data in a reasonably digestable form, with permission, would be huge...

Aerik
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