CS 101: Building a Search Engine

[littleman]

http://www.udacity.com/

Think I'm going to take it just for the kicks.

[Adam C]

Interesting.  Just signed up.

[Rooftop]

We'll teach you enough about computer science that you can build a web search engine like Google or Yahoo

If you build a search engine like Yahoo do you get the last 3 weeks off?

[ukgimp]

I signed up, could be good. In fact probably a pre-requisite to anyone actually doing SEO.

Tried to build one years back with php, was quite hard. I hope they do stuff on compression of the data.

[thesaintv12]

Thanks for posting that, I am learning everything I can at the moment and there is some stuff on the syllabus that is exactly what I need for an upcoming project.

[Woz]

I'm In!

[Brad]

I'm banning all your crawlers.   

[littleman]

>Tried to build one years back

I've built a few before.  One was written in perl and was designed to crawl one's bookmarks and build a searchable database of the results.  The earch mechenism wasn't that sophisticated say for multi-word strings, but it worked.  I parsed all the words and stacked them according to kw density.  The other SE I built was from a crawl of DMOZ.  That one was based on some really nice open source software out of japan (http://fallabs.com/).  Once the index was built it was quite speedy with a million+ URL index on a very under powered PC.

[grnidone]

Very Very Very interesting...When does it start?
-Heather

[Rumbas]

Inneresting. I signed up as well.

[TallTroll]

I note that 2 weeks are devoted to links in one way or another, and none specifically to content.

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[ukgimp]

Anyone looked at this yet?

[ukgimp]

Python, never used that.

[thesaintv12]

Bugger, the emails got caught in spam.  I am going to get started later.

[Adam C]

did anyone follow up with this?

I was on holiday when it started, and never got going.