What sort of search engine do you want to start? A meta search engine or a full fledge search engine?

Do you want to build a small search engine or a directory?

Originally Posted by temi

What sort of search engine do you want to start? A meta search engine or a full fledge search engine?

I want to start a full fledged search engine, not a meta search engine.

Originally Posted by blacknight

Do you want to build a small search engine or a directory?

Search engine, no more directory.

I like Sphider a lot - plus it's very adaptable to other tasks if you don't want to use it straight-up as a search engine. (you can use it to do tons of stuff besides just return search results...)

Originally Posted by .SR

Search engine, no more directory.

If you want to build something different from all the "search engines" script on the market, then the best thing to do is to have your own script created for you.

you could use a Lucene search engine, if you know php i suggest getting a copy of the zend php framework and going from there

this is presuming that you can code these type of things, one problem i see though is that theres google.... and well... there google and own alot of patents to diffrent searching methods... if your not carefull you may get some lovley letters from google's lawers