What strategy would you take to build a search engine today?
Tichy: I still like the idea of using p2p computing to get the computing power (Searchi at home?), though I am not sure how viable it is.Another thing I would be interested in experimenting with is browsing search results. Maybe a flat list of results is not the end of the story? For example maybe it could be interesting to be able to click results and say "more like this, or more like that" (maybe Google does it already with voting on results - did they continue that eperiment?).I am not sure if Google's Algorithm is even that good (the SEOs still succeed, after all). Computing power might not be an edge forever, either. Where they have a big lead might be the number of data sources they have. Not only crawling the web, but people using Google Groups, Google Maps, the book scanning thing, and so on...