Hey Google, Give Me a Search Engine
Dear Google (or MSN, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo etc...),

I'd like a search engine of my very own. With its own crawler and everything.

Let me populate my own index with the sites/images/blogs/videos I choose. I'll use my extra gmail space to hold the data ;)

Let me tweak the algorithm myself (just give me the knobs to turn I don't want to know how it actually works).

Give me a simple blogger-style interface to work with (so I can share access to it with colleagues, with my family for my personal search engine). Give me/my users the option to include other personal search indices for searches.

Please put your ads in there to pay for it.

Now open up the ability to create search engines to the blogging community... WOOHOOO!

I hope that something along these lines is in the works from one of the big search players - with the current explosion of citizen journalism (blogging, podcasting, flikr), I think a big step for helping citizens organize their information is to have the tools the SEs use.

So is this idea redundant with the existing personalized search options? Is it even possible given current technology limitations? Have people written about it before (prolly)? I don't care - I just want my own search engine :)
Garrett French - MarketSmart Interactive | permalink | +marktd |