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

[Patrick Corcoran]

Sami,

This sounds like a huge engineering accomplishment.  Clearly you have 
put a lot of thought and effort into this.  Kudos!

I am curious though: what is it you are trying to build?  Is there a 
deficiency in how Google ranks its results that you are trying to 
exploit?  Is there a new strategy or algorithm to your search?  How is 
it different from what has already been done quite a few times since the 
early 90's? 

(I hope these questions do not sound critical -- they are not intended 
to be.  I'm just more intrigued at the moment by the question "why?" 
than the questions "how?" or "what?")

Also, is there any place online where we could have a preview of its 
current state?

regards,
Patrick Corcoran

Sami M wrote:
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> Hi Folks,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Cheers..
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> Sami
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> sami2065 at gmail.com <mailto:sami2065 at gmail.com>
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