a custom search with the ability to earn money off the adsense ads would be nice. We would then see an explosion of vertical search engines, all powered by Google.
Win/win for everyone involved, I think. |
Index bench could be a way to measure index sizes by doing random queries...
There's a relevant Google Talk on this on Google Video (but I can't find it!) |
Here's the talk:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4192658505848850559&q=google+techtalks+august+2006
Random Sampling from a search engine's index – enables one to make good estimates of the index size.
IndexBench could be tools that measure the quality of an index.... |
Alexa more sounds like Google Trends but I doubt Google IndexBench is something real interesting. But what would that be? |
hmm this doesn't google co-op already do something kind of similar to "rolling your own search results"
... you can subscribe to sources you trust for good info, news, etc. |
The Alexa Web Search Platform is actually a way for third-parties to access Alexa's crawl data. You get access to the documents they used to generate their index. |