Search engine..

[Mutuz]

Hi!

How much work is it in making a search engine for the web? What I want is an engine which sorts out a specified number of hardware-webpages by price, simply to find out which webpage got the cheapest hardware you search for.

Does anyone know about software doing this already? Or can anyone make such an engine?

Thanks for your help!

[The Hobo]

With search engines, you manually have to add all entries to your database, then the user searches that database.

You can build your database by user submittion, or searching the web. But I think most companies, like google, use spiders and bots to "crawl" the web and find webpages.

I don't know if software like this is available, and if it is, I'm sure it's not free.

[CornedBee]

This is not possible in a generic way, because pages don't present their data in a uniform way (the semantic web initiative tries to change that). What you could do was write a framework, and then add modules for each hardware page you want to include. Each module extracts the products etc. from one specific page.

[ober0330]

you want something like www.pricewatch.com?

[Mutuz]

Could you make something like that for me, CornedBee? For a good price, of course!

[CornedBee]

No. I don't have the time, nor the motivation.

[Mutuz]

Can anyone else make it? Hobo? I will pay you at least $500!

[The Hobo]

Originally posted by Mutuz
Can anyone else make it? Hobo? I will pay you at least $500!

That would be a lot of work, time, and effort, time being something I don't have right now. $500 would not cover what it would take for me to code this.

[kows]

Well, before offering my help to you, do you have a preset list of sites, or are you wanting to remake the wheel that is known as Google? If you have a preset list of sites, I'd probably be more interested.

Is the price negotiable? If this is going to take like 4 years to complete I'd want at least some kind of bonus.. 4 years being highly exaggerated, of course.. I've got too much time on my hands as it is, and it's a challenge, so I'd be motivated to do it.

Also, are the funds USD? I'm in Canada.. so, USD would be fine for me.

If you've got AIM, contact me sometime.. l33tkows, I'm usually on all the time..

[Mutuz]

Yes the price is negotiable, and will be in USD.. And yes, we have a preset list of sites! It will not take 4 years, but it is quite a challenge I think! We are not going to remake Google, that's for sure..

The site is Norwegian, but I suggest that you (if you take the job!)make it in your own language, and we can translate it ourselfs afterwards..

Are you interested? If so, how much do you want for it?

[kows]

I am interested.

Since the price is negotiable, I was thinking that since I have no idea of how much of my time this will occupy and how hard it might be, that we would negotiate the price afterwards.

I'd probably prefer talking real-time sometime, and since I have no other instant messenging programs, it'd be through AIM. Kind of awkward to do it through email/forums and wait for replies.