[Search-l] Coop - Custom search engine

[Natanael]

Makes sense to me.
I might wan't a personal search engine that focuses on tech sites only, or
security site only, or even cars if I want. Or maybe shopping?
I don't want random results about everything else.

On 26/09/2008, Christian Ledermann <christian.ledermann at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 22:49 +0200, Balinny wrote:
> > I wouldn't call that 'private'. It must be clear that it can be
> > provided
> > to external users (although
> > it will have completely different scores than in your internal one).
> > At
> > the very least, the search
> > engine shall be allowed to use that data to crawl those urls for
> > third-party users.
> >
> > We don't want something like this: ;)
> > -You showed my private information to other users!
> > -Well, the search engine just answered the query providing your blog.
> > -It was a private search engine!
> > -It happened that only your web had a hit for asdfghjjj. What's wrong
> > on
> > showing the result?
> > -It was my secret diary!! And now hundreds of people are visiting it!
> > -If you wanted a secret diary, why do you placed that in a blog?
> > -So i could use Wikia Search to search on it, obviously.
>
> No, that's not what I meant, let me construct a use case:
>
> So called 'hacker tools' are outlawed by several countries, I am a
> security consultant in one of those countries, so i do need information
> what is going on in terms of exploits, scanning tools, etc. but I do not
> necessarily want to draw attention to the fact that i have a search
> engine that focuses on 'hacking and cracking'.
>
> So my 'personal search engine' will not be available to anyone (except
> others i invited to collaborate) a.) to have a look at the sites to be
> included in the search or to b) use the 'personal search engine'
>
> wikia search otoh is allowed to crawl those sites of course( this is not
> a tool to exclude sites from search, that's what robot.txt or
> authentication is for) and use the description, keywords and ratings.
>
>
> well, maybe this is not the best way to tackle this, there might be
> other and better ways to achieve this form of privacy. Anyway this is
> not the main use case of a focused search engine so it easily can be
> dropped or deferred.
>
>
>
> --
> Best Regards,
>
> Christian Ledermann
>
>
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