[Cialug] Baby Google

[Lee]

Industry specific search engines were a big thing in the late 90s. The
problem was nobody could make a profit. So despite the tools usefullness to
a few. They couldn't justify the lack of a bottom line. The type of search
your thinking of has generally been incorporated into somones value-added
somethig or other. And requires a fee to a given service.

With that said I honestly don't know whos left in the search engine market,
beyond the big guys of course. But there is plenty of search engine and
crawler tools out there. So it would probably come down to a do-it-yourself
project.

But maybe someone on the list can give better advice than I.

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-admin@cialug.org [mailto:cialug-admin@cialug.org]On Behalf
Of Dave J. Hala Jr.
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 7:08 AM
To: Cialug
Subject: [Cialug] Baby Google


Has any considered creating a small google like service for a niche
market? Suppose I was in the widget market and worked with a group of
300 widget retailers -that all had websites.

It would be great to be able to search and index all that widget
information and only that information.

Anyone aware of any tools to do this? Maybe a web crawler and a search
engine?

:) Dave
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Open Source Information Systems (OSIS)
Dave J. Hala Jr. <dave@osis.us>
641.485.1606

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