On Personal Search Engines

Liked Personal Search Engines by Jason J. Gullickson (mr's Preposter.us Blog) A Personal Search Engine (PSE) is a search engine that specializes in your interests. It provides personalized search results by indexing only the things you are interested in, not by spying on you. Instead of crawling the entire Web and then looking for what you've searched for, A PSE crawls only the parts of the Web you are most interested in and looks for what you're searching for there. I read a blog post titled Personal Search Engines with interest (HT Steve Makofsky). The author, Jason J. Gullickson, describes building a prototype federated personal search engine seeded with domains from his RSS feed collection. I like the idea of a personal search engine and have had trying YaCy to that effect on my personal “to-do” list for some time. This very interesting post (and perhaps interesting software in the future) reminded me of the topic (a “PSE” project is not imminent, however). On Personal Search…