SearchEngineJournal: Mozdex.com--The Making of an Open Search Engine, Part 1 | Linux Today

SearchEngineJournal: Mozdex.com–The Making of an Open Search Engine, Part 1

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 10, 2004

“Mozdex recently announced our ambitious project to build a
search engine with global reach, modeled on open source technology.
Mozdex will operate transparently, revealing the processes and
methods used to create and manage our index. We will use this forum
to give updates into the inner workings and creation of Mozdex.

“Designing a search engine is something of a challenge. Our
goals are to provide an index that is fast, available and most
importantly relevant. These are the core issues outside of the
costs involved with such a project. This article will describe our
basic goals as well as outline our key points regarding the project
and what the critical factors are…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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