Confession

[AtW]

If I understand this correctly you will have a search engine like the big guys and your business model will be based around making money from some form of participation.

The business model, I think, will be that you can participate in the project by using spare bandwidth you have to either get discount on reports and profit share earnings from the business, but as a normal non-participating client you can buy information that will help you understand why competitor pages are being ranked higher than yours on other search engines.

I don't want to sell application, nor do I want to sell search engine code - it is tuned to deal with billions of pages, most people don't need to index that much, why would I want to compete against people like mnogosearch who have established their own niche? There is not enough scale and money there for my liking.

[AtW]

Ah, it's a distributed model, now it all falls into place...

Yep. Heavy distribution - not just crawling, but also indexing - you won't believe how long it takes to index the web, and if it's distributed then you need to create very good fast merger that can merge index in parallel, this is much harder than it may seem

[sasguru]

Business intelligence - it will allow to understand why some sites are ranked higher than others on G/Y/M, key to this is backlinking and anchor text used, and my index contains this information. Throw into this a few good reports (and I used to be very good with creating those), and there should be some commercial success

Sorry you're missing the point . How is this going to help anybody?

[sasguru]

The business model, I think, will be that you can participate in the project by using spare bandwidth you have to either get discount on reports and profit share earnings from the business, but as a normal non-participating client you can buy information that will help you understand why competitor pages are being ranked higher than yours on other search engines.

I don't want to sell application, nor do I want to sell search engine code - it is tuned to deal with billions of pages, most people don't need to index that much, why would I want to compete against people like mnogosearch who have established their own niche? There is not enough scale and money there for my liking.

Ah Ok ignore last post I see. Thinking ...

[Cliphead]

Yep. Heavy distribution - not just crawling, but also indexing - you won't believe how long it takes to index the web, and if it's distributed then you need to create very good fast merger that can merge index in parallel, this is much harder than it may seem

This is considerably different to seti@home and similar projects, maintaining a sufficient number clients whilst holding the complete infrastructure together to be able to produce the accurate and timely reports that your business model relies on to generate revenue is a monumental task.

My first reaction is that you will spend more time striving to maintain the integrity of the data than you will perhaps be providing useful information.

[sasguru]

Ok. Humour me here, I'm old and have forgotten the techie stuff. But how do you make money from ranking in a search engine? I mean why would anyone (blue chip) pay you for that?

[TimberWolf]

Well I've been reading your CV and all sorts related to your work Master Alex, and you certainly seem to have made a lot of progress with the project.

[sasguru]

Well I've been reading your CV and all sorts related to your work Master Alex, and you certainly seem to have made a lot of progress with the project.

He's Ok technically. I just wish he would think more commercially ...

I'm guessing he's handicapped by Soviet thinking :-)

[Cliphead]

He's Ok technically. I just wish he would think more commercially ...

Or more coherently

[sasguru]

Or more coherently

Indeed. Still I've always had a weak spot for people who follow their passion, and I think constructive encouragement is due ...