[Search-l] Coop - Custom search engine

[Jeremie Miller]

If someone wanted their own personal search engine they could just run  
their own instance of Nutch sure, I don't think anyone has done the  
work to make it as friendly as it might need to be though :)

On Sep 29, 2008, at 6:20 AM, Natanael wrote:

> Then we'll just set up a "search bot" with it's own database, so  
> whenever somebody creates a private engine it will use Nutch and  
> filter out the results, and it will store the settings for the  
> private engines.
>
> Does that seem to be a sane solution?
>
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 00:21, Jeremie Miller <jeremie at jabber.org>  
> wrote:
> Unfortunately nothing this project is doing with it's Nutch/Lucene
> index, the grub ARC files, or with KT (the Hbase instance that stores
> all the user contributions) will ever really support private
> information, since it's all publicly available in either open APIs or
> for raw access ( http://soap.grub.org/arcs/ http://re.search.wikia.com/downloads/kt/
>  http://search.isc.org/download/ ).
>
> It's possible to still build personalized search tools with
> transparency, but not private ones.
>
> Jer
>
> On Sep 26, 2008, at 5:49 AM, Balinny wrote:
>
> > Christian Ledermann wrote:
> >> No, that's not what I meant, let me construct a use case:
> >>
> > I wasn't trying to show a use case, but a /misuse case/ based on how
> > people
> > could bizarrely understand the word "private".
> >
> > I find your use case perfectly acceptable. Wikia Search would
> > benefit from
> > the crawling needed for your "personal search", and take into  
> account
> > keywords and ratings (beware of SEOs creating hundreds of personal
> > search
> > engines to add a keyword to their irrelevant site!).
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