On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 09:59:36PM -0400, fmanheim wrote: > I'm wondering whether Nutch is set up to undertake small-scale, high- > quality searches for modest fees? Frankly, I suspect there is a huge market > in this area if the costs can be made affordable to little people, not just > industry.
Yes, nutch can be deployed for small-scale, high-quality searches. Certainly, business ventures can base their paid services on it. > > I am a researcher in public policy at a state university and 80% of my > research time is spent in doing web searches for scientific, governmental, > NGO, and eclectic data. Google has increased my research rate by 500 % but > the vast increase in material poses new problems managing all this stuff. Could you be more specific? > > My experience and trained intuition lets me arrive at good insights quickly > by discerning the best sites - and knowing what to extract from them. Others > might welcome experienced help in doing "my" kind of search, but I would > welcome help in speeding up my ability to search and review results. The > manipulation issue may be less critical for hard data derived from > governmental, interest organizations (e.g. Natural Resources Defense > Council, UN Environmental Program, American Petroleum Institute) and their > sites. It seems to me conceivable that a search engine with high credentials > for fair and ethical balance, etc. could yield syntheses that could be used > and even cited directly on web sites and in publications. If you have a list of "best" sites, just instruct a nutch setup to crawl them (and limit the scope only to them). The default results are already good enough for common purpose. I have run a few intranet search engine instances and they are pretty good. John ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com _______________________________________________ Nutch-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nutch-general
