What do you guys think?

[rardoe at rarcom.com (Chris Tresco)]

I don't think your idea is too unique... sounds like a web interface to
SQL... companies already employ these things.


On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 19:44, mlw wrote:
> Nathan Meyers wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 05:57:42PM -0400, mlw wrote:
> > > I have written a search engine system, similar to something like Google and
> > > altavista...
> > >
> > > Anyone have any ideas on how to package the system or to whom to sell it?
> > >
> > > Would I be a fool to open source all of it. (A good part of it is already open
> > > sourced.)
> > 
> > If you're really asking questions like this, you might as well open it up
> > and see what others have to contribute or how others may use it. The only
> > thing that keeps it from being the next Google or AltaVista is putting
> > together a company, raising a ton of money, running a large data center,
> > and challenging the well-established leaders in the market. From the
> > sort of questions you're asking, I suspect that's not an activity you're
> > comfortable with.
> 
> Actually, I think I didn't describe it correctly. While it operates similarly
> to technologies like altavista and google, it primarily a search engine for
> databases. The primary interface is ODBC, but data source plugins can be
> written. (This is how MPI is supported)
> 
> Say you have a huge database. While systems like Oracle support some searching
> features, this adds the super quick searching that one associates with internet
> search engines to your database or document directory. I do not want to get
> into creating another internet search engine, that would be hugely expensive
> and would require venture capital, and lets be honest, not worth the effort.
> 
> The idea would be to sell it as a product to companies with large amounts of
> fairly static data to aid their data search systems.
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