What strategy would you take to build a search engine today?
yannis: Search technology - perhaps because of the cost in setting up - has stayed behind. I would like to see:(01)User ability to adjust the 'algo' for ranking results. I may want all the newer websites and news in my ield rather than the websites with the highest page rank.(02) Ability to distinguish an 'authority website', i.e I search for Topic X, I do not want the wikipedia. I want the website perhaps of a Ph.D. student with no SEO, but with 500 pages on the topic (i.e not only rank pages, but rank websites).(03) and fast as hell :)