Re: Security Search Engine

["Saqib Ali" <docbook.xml () gmail com>]

Hello,

Thank you all for the great feedback. Please keep it coming. And also
please keep on sending me your favorite security related sites. They
are awesome.

Couple of criterion I forgot to mention in my previous emails:
1) I check the Netcraft ranking for each suggested URL that I receive.
The site has to rank in 50K+ to be included in the index. (e.g.
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.securityfocus.com)

2) I also make sure that the site doesn't excessive amount of Ads. For
e.g. I will not include  http://www.securitynewsportal.com/index.shtml

Any thoughts?

On 10/25/06, Matt Lye <lyematt () gmail com> wrote:
> Its a good idea and  I think it will be helpful however the problem of
> having vendor neutral sites is an issue. Most of the non vendor sites
> that talk about security and  esecurity are blogs and many are opinion
> based.
>
> Some such as the Pauldotcom blogs, securitycatalyst, stillsecure, are
> done by skilled professionals others such as steve gibsons GRC.com
> have many factual errors in what they say about security issues. The
> difficulty I belive will be in generating a vendor neutral accurate
> information. You will be forced to screen so much information, many
> fairly neutral sites such as security focus are owned by the security
> companies. A few like SANS, packetstorm, and government agencys from
> around the world, are going to be your only true sources.
>
> That being said its a great idea and if you can get it to work ill be using it.
>
> On 10/25/06, Saqib Ali <docbook.xml () gmail com> 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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