Building your own search engine -- good idea?

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As some of you guys know, I have access to a TON of affordable college-educated labor. I was thinking of building a search engine that is powered by personally researched responses. Do you think this will work?

Currently, I'd like it to focus mostly on generating traffic so I'd like it to have the ability to get a lot of searches. I'll worry about monetizing it later.

WHAT KIND of features would you want it to have for YOU to put a link to it on your sites?

 

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[Jon]

Sorry.. but the world has enough search engines already.

 

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Sorry.. but the world has enough search engines already.

Very targeted search engine and CUSTOMIZED to each search. Any thoughts on this?

 

[DruSam]

I had a somewhat similar idea the other day about creating search engines for exclusively for certain topics.
Say you want a search engine that is all about food, and it gives exclusively and strictly websites within that topic.
It sounds really stupid I guess because what is Google for?
But perhaps it could be used as a stupid marketing ploy more than something that has more value than a sophisticated search like google.
Perhaps this "niche search engine" could house a directory, article submission, and a forum all in one "portal".

Oh hell, I just described Yahoo now that I think about it...

 

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I had a somewhat similar idea the other day about creating search engines for exclusively for certain topics.
Say you want a search engine that is all about food, and it gives exclusively and strictly websites within that topic.
It sounds really stupid I guess because what is Google for?
But perhaps it could be used as a stupid marketing ploy more than something that has more value than a sophisticated search like google.
Perhaps this "niche search engine" could house a directory, article submission, and a forum all in one "portal".

Oh hell, I just described Yahoo now that I think about it...

You also described About.Com Not a bad model.

 

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[Andrew]

Sounds like what MS is doing:
http://seoblackhat.com/2006/06/14/msn-hiring-people-to-hand-code-serps/

 

[pearz76]

How about Social BookMarking on a Certain Niche ???

 

[z00pedup]

Do a meta search engine Or using web 2.0 ideas like Pearz said

Although its a saturated market

 

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Very nice. You're on the right path. I wanted to take it one step further

How about Social BookMarking on a Certain Niche ???

 

[CoRegisteer.com]

what abt the whole Blingo concept?

Where you have a chance to win prizes if you use their search engine (www.blingo.com ) I thought that was a neat concept, and I guess other ppl did as well, since they recently got bought out.

 

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Iwon.com used the same concept where you can win cash if you use their search engine.