Re: Security Search Engine

[Dathan Bennett <dathan () shsu edu>]

Sounds like a good idea to me.  Of course, in order to provide a 
searchable list of sites that meet your criteria, you're going to have 
to visit each site and review them, which could be a time-prohibitive 
effort.

I understand that you're intending to make a vendor-neutral list, but I 
think you should reconsider your stance on including vendors'
websites in your index.  You could flag them and have them show up in a
separate set of search results if you want.  But vendors often have a 
lot of information on their products that may be difficult to find 
elsewhere (or at least that may not be organized as nicely elsewhere), 
so I think you'd be doing your search engine a disservice to not include 
those sites.  Other vendor sites also offer whitepages, FAQs, HOWTO's, 
etc. for download, and it would be good to include those in your search 
index, for sure.  Your engine will be more effectively neutral, IMO, by 
including ALL sites germane to the topic, no matter how partisan or 
biased toward a particular product, rather than excluding all 
product-specific sites.

~Dathan

Saqib Ali wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am building a Search Engine exclusively for the Security and
> eSecurity Community using Google's Coop program.
>
> I would like to NOT include any vendor site but just index sites that
> are vendor neutral. Would this is be a good strategy or not?
>
> The URL for the search engine is
> http://www.xml-dev.com
>
> Any suggestion, or new URLs are welcome.
> Note: I won't include any security vendor website in the index for 
> right now.

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