What strategy would you take to build a search engine today?
byrneseyeview: There's room for a search engine that can take more advanced boolean queries and can handle custom ranking. For example, a while ago I was trying to find a section on a blog that mention someone whose last name is "White". The blog mentions politics a lot, so nearly every article also had the phrase "white house". It would be nice to search for mentions on the blog of "white" not including "white house," but not excluding it, either.The closest you can get on Google is to search for white and NOT "white house," then search for "white house," and search within the results for "white" to see if anything else pops up.