You want to use WP as a search engine? That’s not a theming thing; at best, it would be done with a plugin. But the key to a search engine is the spidering and databases.
Are you searching the entire web or just your site?
Mr Stern,
I have been learning a great deal about search engines. I want to make one for the public and build and scale a business with that. I would like a template and plugins then work to customize the crawling, parsing, indexing and when legal scraping. I am surprised there is not a well known theme ready for download yet.
Thank you
^ I am interested in searching the whole entire web and I have some ideas on possibly how to increase efficiency of that process.
^ I am interested in searching the whole entire web and I have some ideas on possibly how to increase efficiency of that process.
Step 1: Get someone to hand you a billion dollars.
Really, this is not a WordPress question. If you were to use WP for this, it would be just the front end to a massive database and spider/scraping tools.
Steve,
I understand. I am surprised there is not a WordPress theme for that yet with a settings menu. I am researching the database programs as well as what I would need hosting wise to get the engine up and running. Producing a workable theme/s is essential before connecting to all of the search engine programs and databases. I think it is a fascinating venture that could eventually become profitable. If it became with hundreds of millions of dollars I would scale to my own servers probably after venture capital and depending before or after an and an IPO. If anyone has further resources please feel free to share. I have been a search engine enthusiast most of my life. I am trying to learn as much as possible.
Thank you
This is not something you’d do with a theme or simple plugin, @thewealthiest. A theme’s job is to display your content. Plugins provide functionality beyond what’s in core. Good luck with your venture and may Google buy you out for billions! 🙂
I am aware that the guts are the data mining and processing engines. Building a webpage that supports all of those functions is one dimension and one task needs to be accomplished. Building a robust settings menu and then eventually providing analytics for developers and marketing. I think the search engine market is not saturated yet so that is where profits and competition is very possible. People like to utilize many engines and if a large audience is gathered then marketing revenue follows naturally. Finally, there is much better free and open source technology now then there ever was before. Thank you for you thoughts. If I eventually own a large and successful search engine company I might not sell it, except a percentage in shares. I have another project I am developing first through a modified WordPress theme. But I am learning about more than one type web service enterprise simultaneously. Thank you again .
