Look Ma, My Own Search Engine!

Lingxian Ding of Yahoo has revealed on a Yahoo! Search Blog that the Sunnyvale-based company has released a search-engine builder tool. Addressing the necessities of Web publisher involved in the field of social search, Yahoo has designed Search Builder. The prototype specialized search engine building tool places control in the hands of the users, permitting advanced tailoring to fit individual Website measures and necessities. "With Yahoo! Search Builder you can create a custom Web search engine by selecting a set of trusted sites to search across or you can tune the search algorithm to the topic of your choice. Beyond Web search, Search Builder includes Site search and News search," revealed Lingxian Ding.

The instant search engine also delivers management features through the aid of a fundamental orchestra of tools designed with intuitive use in mind in order to provide users with guidelines to search traffic. Concomitantly, it provides an alternative solution to the manual assemble of a Website's index. The only limitations of the system are the specialized areas of search on singular specific themes.

"With the popular search module, you'll discover hot searches your users are interested in. With user and traffic reports, you'll be able to monitor the growth of your search engine," promises Lingxian Ding.