Digforit.com is for sale on eBay. Check out the auction. As of the morning of May 8 the top bid is $15,000, and the auction ends on May 14.
For web search, Digforit uses GYM, though it’s more focused on Google. For other types of search, such as Audio, Blogs, Video etc. the engines vary. Digforit has built in a query refinement feature that pops up after you type in your query.
Back in October, Jux2.com , another meta-search engine, sold for $101,000, so it’ll be interesting to see what this one sells for.
Update: Sold for $25,400.
I should see what my Spectate Swamp Search is worth.
Microsoft spent 100 million on theirs.
I started building my search engine in 1999.
It was as a plain text search.
The flowchart to do the line wrap and hi-lights took
3 days. But it worked right off.
Step one complete. Search and display text results.
Next I added the ability to search text and call up
pictures. If a match was found and the next line had
the path to a picture then I displayed that picture.
We scanned in and catalogued 5000+ family pictures
and had that as a test base.
Changes were made so it could run as a screen saver.
Then with a random option, because sequential becomes
very very boring.
Then came video. The ability to play slow motion and
freeze frame were two main features. I’ve had a mini
dvd camcorder for 4 years now. This program makes
computers and video fun.
This is desktop search.
to make this app a net search wouldn’t be too tuff.
instead of a picture it would be a url that would be loaded.
To make this one scalable. Wouldn’t be that hard either.
I currently run it as a background job. 10,000 copies searching
various parts of the search material, should do the trick.
All my notes emails and net clippings since 1999 amount to 75M
At 20,000,000 cps it takes just over 3 seconds.
I have looked at some of the others. The more I looked the more
I loved my desktop search. The thing I like most is that all my searches
can be done in full text mode. With search, it is always the context
one is looking for. I know the name “joe smith” when I search. It is
his phone# or a person I met through him that I am interested in.
Context context context. The other searches give you jibberish from
their indexes before you see the real data.
again very interesting stuff desktop search. Probably the most
useful program on any computer.
This search is so fast it will make you laugh.
You should read the truth about this on TechCrunch
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/05/04/want-to-buy-a-search-engine-2/