need help regarding content

[Tom Aaron]

hello

i want to ask that can i host a search engine website on x10???

[ChatIndia]

* Bots\Scripts We do not allow any type of bot or script that runs constantly, free hosting is for creating a website, not for hosting your scripts.

search engines are bots????

[cybrax]

The web is a big place so the script would have to be running continuiosly reading the billions of pages so there is the question of server resource usage and the gargantuan amount of data that needs to be indexed and stored as a result. Best you can do practically is 'piggy-back' an existing search engine like Yahoo and manipulate the data they return to you. (see Yahoo Pipes)

Free accounts it is worth mentioning on X10 are forbidden to retrieve data from an external URL directly.

There is a free web host that permits the use of file_get_contents on a free account, however
the same server useage limit rules apply but remember as 'webmaster' of the search engine/bot
you are held accountable for all the data being stored. So if you save images or text from say a porn or
hacking related site then that would be an instant hosting TOS violation and subsequent ban/ account closure.

[puurchoco47]

I don't think it would be possible.

[SJ.Wolfe]

Besides the issues mentioned by cybrax, you already have 3 big name companies (Technically two, as Microsoft bought out Yahoo, or so I hear) to compete with in the search engine industry. They're well known. You would be brand new. There's really no room for a new search engine.

[essellar]

Besides the issues mentioned by cybrax, you already have 3 big name companies (Technically two, as Microsoft bought out Yahoo, or so I hear) to compete with in the search engine industry. They're well known. You would be brand new. There's really no room for a new search engine.

... and there are alternative styles of augmented search out there already, like DuckDuckGo (which concentrates on finding results used as citations elsewhere) and Wolfram Alpha (which tries to return a direct answer to your query rather than just a list of pages to try). There are also specialised media searches (like the image search by our own local LearningBrain) and so on. You'd need to have something going that others don't have (like a multisite but narrowly focused search -- something that only looks at vetted politically- or religiously-friendly sites for a particular community, for instance) and it would need to be pretty comprehensive and scalable from day one in order to be of any use to anybody. The storage requirements, computation required to create the full-text index and rank relevance, and the capability to access and read target pages are all well beyond free hosting.

[Tom Aaron]

thanx all

but i use a google custom search and it does not run always for indexing sites

here my site http://coolsearch.x10.mx/

if now also problem then i will close it

thnx

[ChatIndia]

there would be no problem (in my opinion)

[Tom Aaron]

hmmmm ok

[essellar]

Then you are not hosting a search engine on x10Hosting; all you are doing is calling a Google API via JavaScript. Google is hosting the search engine, you're just using it. That's not nearly the same thing.