[jacquesm]

sorry, no I don't use flickr. I run my own gallery... (gallery2), it's open to complete strangers as well.

[catch23]

don't tell me you run your own search and mail too...

[jacquesm]

mail yes (postfx + horde), search = google.

[tybris]

Pfff, real men do their own crawling.

[jacquesm]

well, I toyed around with writing my own search engine (have a pretty good proof of concept) but in the end the bandwidth costs would have been prohibitive... so there :)

[Keyframe]

http://www.80legs.com/ - jdrock, founder, is around here on HN

[jacquesm]

That's extremely interesting. Thank you!

The funny thing is while coding that stuff the bigger problems were financial and the enormous amount of cruft that is the web. The actual search engine wasn't that hard at all.

[mahmud]

Montezuma is nice. Also see how it "relates" to Lucene:

http://lemonodor.com/archives/001361.html