Search Engine

[derrickkwa]

Hey guys,

I'm looking for coders who know how search engines work or people who know about data formats (storage/interepretation of data formats, such as audio, pics, etc).

Basically, I have an idea based on search engines. Like, why is it search engines are limited to searching for text in pages (or filenames, for the case of pics n audio files). Would it be possible to search, for example, based on format (or the "look" of a website)? Things like that. The whole idea is a bit long to explain here. But if anyone's interested/willing to help, you can contact me at [email protected].

I can't offer payments up front, but if this works out well, it might turn out to be quite a profitable venture, and these profits will be split by percentage among those who worked on it.

Derrick

[Al42]

Would it be possible to search, for example, based on format (or the "look" of a website)? Things like that.

Sure ... if you're willing to wait a few days for your first hits to be returned. You'd need, to start, some rudementary AI, since what I draw may not look exactly like what the site looks like, so it would be a search on "looks something like this", not "looks like this".

As far as sound, how do I enter the search - by humming into the mic?

Of course if you can figure out a search algorithm, someone can code it.

[derrickkwa]

Hm. Yeah. I know that pics and audio will take a long time. Wondering if there was a way to make it faster. I'm still thinking through the details and would like someone who knows more about this type of thing who is willing to help me think through this.

As for formatting, at least for basic formatting, it should be doable. I mean, if you can search through the text at a certain speed, why not search the html code instead? This can help a lot especially in homework, etc. For example, let's say u're searchning for the physics equation e = mc^2. Some websites will type that, some websites will put it as "e=mc2", with the 2 superscripted, etc. This is a basic example of how the formatting search can help. Yeah.

Any thoughts?

Derrick