How to setup a search engine?

[Churchill]

itsn't c++ good on memory and speed which is vital for a good search engine?
what does google use?

What you really need to do is print out every page on the internet and then hire 54 million Indians to add each of those pages to your access database.

Simples!

[Bright Spark]

I assumed ( you did not provide the context ) that you wanted a crawler for a particular website. If you want page rank etc ( its redundant anyway, google do not use page rank) you might have to write your own algorithm.

So how many websites are you planning to crawl and what is the end point of what you are trying to achieve ?

correction mate page rank was invented by google, and is what makes their search rankings
better.

I'm looking for a niche area to start of with once I made a few million to
fund enough hard disks and servers then I intent to take on the big boys.

[Xenophon]

What you really need to do is print out every page on the internet and then hire 54 million Indians to add each of those pages to your access database.

Simples!

I like it.

Also, when you've got the internet printed out, you could bind it and sell it as a book.

[fullyautomatix]

correction mate page rank was invented by google, and is what makes their search rankings
better.

I'm looking for a niche area to start of with once I made a few million to
fund enough hard disks and servers then I intent to take on the big boys.

I know pagerank and who invented it, I am saying pagerank is no longer used by the Google algorithm to sort their search results.

[Xenophon]

correction mate page rank was invented by google, and is what makes their search rankings
better.

I'm looking for a niche area to start of with once I made a few million to
fund enough hard disks and servers then I intent to take on the big boys.

I know pagerank and who invented it, I am saying pagerank is no longer used by the Google algorithm to sort their search results.

Fight!

[Cliphead]

correction mate page rank was invented by google, and is what makes their search rankings
better.

I'm looking for a niche area to start of with once I made a few million to
fund enough hard disks and servers then I intent to take on the big boys.

I do niche search engines.

[Bright Spark]

I know pagerank and who invented it, I am saying pagerank is no longer used by the Google algorithm to sort their search results.

it's still used, they just want people to think it's not so there search results
remain relevant.

http://www.google.com/press/funfacts.html

[doodab]

itsn't c++ good on memory and speed which is vital for a good search engine?
what does google use?

Like all languages, it's as good as the person writing the code.

You will see higher programmer productivity with C# or Java. Because they spend less time fixing silly bugs they can spend more time implementing and fine tuning the algorithm.

[Bright Spark]

I like it.

Also, when you've got the internet printed out, you could bind it and sell it as a book.

good thinking batman! just think of all the royalites and commission you could make.

[chef]

I like it.

Also, when you've got the internet printed out, you could bind it and sell it as a book.

my mum would love that, then she could understand what the Interweb thingy is all about