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Unlikely I know, but their access to true real-time data presents interesting possibilities I think.
Specifically http://www.verticalset.com/extensions
And build your own here
Later on we plan to build a consumer facing website/search engine, essentially a front-end for our api, once we have moved into building large indexes around people and places (the two other verticals we are targeting)
I've hired a freelancing coder to do some "wrapping up" so I could show the prototype but it is over a month now and still I haven't heard from him.
I do not want to engage too much time and resources into this (hiring stationary coders) but this really is the search engine that is closest to disrupting Google and Bing.
I believe that slashtags and bangs and non-spam results are not the way to go, my search engine tries a different route altogether which those two big engines ( Google and Bing ) couldn't probably adopt because they are simply too big.
I can produce results semi-manually and all I need is automation for that method but the coder I've hired, stopped responding over a month ago.
I really see big future in it but I do not want to invest too much effort and money into something so risky.
I wish I could show you what it is all about but it would reveal too much. And without the automated prototype, some good coder could simply copy it in like 2 weeks.
I believe that for $10000 I could present a really basic prototype of something that is disruptive to Google and Bing and if it isn't I think nothing will ever be.
I have an idea( prototype? ) for a search engine that could be disruptive, with a bit of luck. It has nothing to do with bangs and slashtags. I've hired a freelancing coder to do some "wrapping up" so I could show the prototype but it is over a month now and still I haven't heard from him. I do not want to engage too much time and resources into this (hiring stationary coders) but this really is the search engine tha…
I think there is still huge room for innovation in search. Google has taken a different track, and they're focusing on Machine Intelligence. (in my opinion) search is just a nice side effect, but I really don't think it's their focus any longer.
It might be too much work just to see if it is useful but I'm thinking they have a ton of data about where everyone goes on the web because the Like button is so pervasive. Why not use that data to make search extremely personalized?
Reasons why I like this:
1) It's not like anyone currently uses facebook for search, they literally have nothing to lose.
2) It would be interesting to see if the aphorism, "Show me your friends and I'll show you your future" holds up.
3) It's data that google doesn't have access to, unless G+ takes off.
4) It would be cheaper to crawl the web, essentially your users are your web crawlers.
Take the same graph theory algorithms used for backlinks and apply it to views and instead of page rank use time that their friends spend on the site.
Then you can do some interesting stuff like weight the page rank more heavily for individuals you interact with more.
Or super creepy (but statistically interesting) stuff could be done like if you want someone to reconnect with a friend they haven't spoken to in a while, weight the "long lost friend's" pages more heavily. Essentially, influence people to talk to each other by converging their data about the world.
EDIT: Another thought - if websites know that they're only admission into the search engine is putting a Like button on their page it gives them an incentive to do so.