This blog will highlight a journey and hopefully answer some questions
§ Is it time for Google to join the ranks of the past search engine greats like Altavista , Lycos and Excite ?
§ Will the next top dog in internet search and retrieval come from Europe ?
§ Can a university that not only produced more than 20 Nobel Laureates and the first computer take Stanford’s Crown ?
Now time to introduce myself, I am a research student based at the world acclaimed British University known as UMIST.
In recent months myself and three other fellow Computer Science and software Engineering research students have been working on a project to see if there are better alternatives to the current information retrieval methods offered by google , msn and yahoo.
Over the last three years alone I can think of at least 10 “Google Killers” whom have tried to take the crown with no success.
This blog will analyse the problem currently faced in finding information, give a grounding on creating a search engine from inside out and hopefully end up by releasing a working demo.
We are always looking for donation of Time , skills and even hardware. So get in touch if you want to help in anyway.
Tags: google, manchester, pakerank, search engine, searchengine, umist
