Question and Idea

[Zeeble]

This is my question:

what kind of resources would be needed in order to start a search engine, one which spiders for its own results.....
and how much would this cost to start.

My idea is this:
Get a search engine going which spiders for its own result, however, get this search engine to very carefully index links in to millions of different keywords, when a searcher searches, only the top 100 most carfeully selected results are shown... This would provide searchers with great quality results.
Not only this, but also SEO the search engine, to make sure that other search engines highly feature it in their results for millions of keywords...
Rather than have sponsored links in the form of PPC, I would think that it would be best to advertise sites to which the SE is aff. advertisers can signup and offer a % of a sale rather than an amount per click (this would only apply to sites activly selling things)

I know that this would be extremely resource intensive, and quite expensive to start but I would just like peoples views....

no body?

 

[adam_uk]

to be honest i think your efforts would be wasted. google is too advanced to powered and youd have to come with someone google hasnt.

 

[crazy]

yeah, people mainly only use google, small search engines can't make it, too much competition. Your about 10 years too late.

 

[painperdu]

I'm not sure what you're getting at? are you talking about a meta-search engine like dogpile?

Google is far from being expendable, especially considering the growing tide of disatisfaction from irrelevant results being reported here and there. Also, people once thought Yahoo directory and Altavista would never be usurped . . .

The web is always evolving and the best innovation will always lead!

 

[Zeeble]

ok, I think the two posts above the one above (hehe) don't quite understand how this would work.
Through some relativly careful SEO, and through a USP (top 100 most relevant results) such a search engine could easily become popular, you will be surprised at how much traffic such a search engine would get if SEO'ed carefully, and marketed properly.
I for one hate going to Goolge now because of the results, I use MSN. However I am sick and tired of searching through sometimes up to 10 pages of results to find what I am looking for, such a search engine as I am suggesting would basically split indexed sites up into catagories defined by keywords to provide much more relevant results.

 

[Veolus]

Theres too much competition :imho:

 

[Zeeble]

not really. You are still not seeing what I am saying, the site would have a solid USP.
The site would not adopt a stratagy of aggresive marketing like MSN or google where they are in your face, but passive, where the search engine appears consistently in other search engine results. Such a stratagy can easily be successful. Then through superior results, people book, mark the site and continue to use it.

Take a look at this:

100k searches per day would = roughly $500 per day already. At the very least. That would be enough to break even.

100k searches would probably earn more like $1000 per day, that assumption is based on the performance of a search engine which I have owned in the past.