I think such publication is very important. I have no idea at all if open source search engines could ever work.
But if they can, I think a big part of it would be separation of the crawl index and the UI / prioritisation etc. Different people can work on those two ends of the problem and apply different philosophies.
Search only forums? Reject porn using XYZ method? Great! But they can all use the same database, or pick from the a common community of databases.
But if they can, I think a big part of it would be separation of the crawl index and the UI / prioritisation etc. Different people can work on those two ends of the problem and apply different philosophies.
Search only forums? Reject porn using XYZ method? Great! But they can all use the same database, or pick from the a common community of databases.