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by RyanHolliday
5654 days ago
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Yeah, there's definitely a major technological hurdle. I was more curious if anyone is actually willing to pay for search. So far, it's been running on the ad-supported model. Also, I don't have any illusions about killing Google at this point. You don't need to kill Google to make a niche search business that produces a profit, was more my thinking. |
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I don't think it's a technological hurdle at all, scraping websites is fairly standard nowadays. The challenge is a logical one. You just need to mentally think up of a better logical algorithm than Page Rank.
Page Rank is a very robust heuristic with many perhaps unwitting parallels to social psychology. How people gain status in groups and social norms are created is similar to how websites rank. Perhaps you could catch up on social psychology theory or other seemingly unrelated fields to see if any sparks fly about how you could apply it to the web.