SKA news ... from the Guardian!

[OwlHoot]

Gents/ladies/threaded,

Its been a while since I posted about SKA and this time I will let the Guardian speak for me: they published an article in today's paper (technology edition bit inside it) about my work, you can read it here

Special thanks go to select individuals (particularly FiddleAbout) from CUK forum who supported the project from its start - this helped greatly to not give up early!

In other news SKA reached new milestone of over 1 bln indexed web pages - relevance has been improved substantially, but a lot more will come, so stay tuned for next SKA news update!!!!

Congrats and keep at it, but I still reckon that without some financial model it's little more than a big boy's toy (unless Google or someone snaps it up for megabucks).

With a distributed system, as yours apparently is, perhaps it would help if index page storage hosters were rewarded in small increments each time their data was used (unless the information is so "striped" across multiple hosts as to make that impractical). But you'd need some funds coming into the system by sponsored links, and ways of detecting hosters trying to work the system to their advantage (doing repeated searches on data they know they have indexed, for example). Or, again with precautions, you could promote results up the rankings for sites that agree to store index data.

[bogeyman]

But you'd need some funds coming into the system by sponsored links, and ways of detecting hosters trying to work the system to their advantage (doing repeated searches on data they know they have indexed, for example). Or, again with precautions, you could promote results up the rankings for sites that agree to store index data.

Quite so.

Wise old owl.

[xoggoth]

Well done atW, hope it works out.

[vetran]

Oh Dear Alexei

Suppose I have to be nice to you now Congrats - sounds like all your hard work may pay off. - now don't expect me to make a habit of it.

AIUI the money is supposed to come from the intelligence over what people are searching for?

By the way the tache has to go!

[AtW]

hehe thanks guys.

The money will come from licensing program - search engine turns out to be very very efficient, which means it will make an excellent smaller scale search engine, ie enterprise search or product search - when I have re-written search engine in my ex-ex-employer we have observed 4 times reduction in database usage (CPU), this can save big bucks.

[Board Game Geek]

Gratz

Well done Alex...I'm impressed..and I hope you receive the rewards you deserve for your vision and persistence !

Nice to see a positive story for a change !

Good luck !

[sasguru]

When you become rich please remember the underprivileged of this world and donate some money to charity. I would like to recommend the "SG Champagne and Expensive Whores" Fund. Reg. Charity No. 4327268.
This is dedicated to alleviate the pain of existence of a certain character, but if funds are left over they can be used for other characters, especially if female. Thanks.

PS. Congrats ad well done by the way.

[Lucifer Box]

what are her thoughts on kind Giant Alien Lizards, LB?

As long as they have own car, home and GSOH, I see no real difficulty. It would help if you didn't try and eat her I think.

[DimPrawn]

Hmmmm a woman looking for a man who owns his own big house, has a nice expensive car etc.

Not divorced by any chance is she?

[Lucifer Box]

No, but if the gent were suitably loaded she might decide to divorce him in the interests of fairness after a couple of years.