[Search-l] call to action....

[Nitin Borwankar]

Sami M wrote:

>  
>
> Hi Folks,
>
>  
>
> I've been following this list with interest. Internet search is my 
> passion and I'd been following it since 1998 starting with some 
> projects in grad school.
>
>  
>
> I'd been working on a prototype of a large scale search engine the 
> last 2 years. This has been done mostly moonlighting nights and 
> weekends except for the last three months when I left my day job to 
> work on it fulltime. In summary… I've built a working implementation 
> of the original Google prototype according to their Stanford paper all 
> pushing approximately 60K lines of mostly C code. It is scalable on a 
> cluster of commodity linux boxes with some additional work. A single 
> server in this case can crawl, index, and serve 50M documents.
>
>  
>
> It is turning out to be a big task and now I am looking out for 
> options on what direction to take next. This is a call to action. I am 
> open to any suggestions or feedback. If anyone is interested in 
> joining hands, collaborating, or investing in any sort of way I'd be 
> interested in talking about it. I am based in San Francisco bayarea.
>
>  
>
> Cheers..
>
>  
>
> Sami
>

Hi Sami,

You may want to decide how you want to license the source - you need to 
decide this and publicize it before inviting participants so everyone is 
clear what happens to their code contributions etc.  Just a thought.

Nitin

-- 


Nitin Borwankar

http://walruscarpenter.wordpress.com	Of shoes  and ships  and sealing wax  of cabbages and kings
http://greener.com    Find, Learn, Act .... Greener, the search engine for the planet
http://tagschema.com  Implementation of tag database applications

nitin at borwankar.com
510-872-7066