SearchMashup

From MashupCamp

We talked about a bunch of things. I will put up the mindmap over the weekend and will write a more detailed blog. Here are some notes.

• We need SearchMashups to customize search

• We can create some way of generating more complex searches from simple search keywords by looking them up in a custom thesaurus ( for example subtitutre "scripting language" as a search term by "perl php python ruby tcl" and feed it to search engines)

• We can post process the results of the search to provide alternative views

• The search engines do not support this right now, but it would be nice to have some ability to provide specific context to the search engines.

• The popularly known search engine APIs include Google, Yahoo and Microsoft MSN. In addition we can also use Apache Lucene. The commercial ones are more stable and have some restrictions on usage. Apache Lucene is open source and can be used freely.