How do you design a search engine?
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Designing a good search engine involves a lot of planning. The different components of a search engine are:\n1. A Bot / Crawler program that scans different websites and extracts the content.\n2. A parser program  that eliminates the HTML tags and other words that you dont wish to store.\n3. An Index - which is a list of keywords and link to the URL in which this was found.\n4. A Ranking algorithm that can assign some kind of weightage to the entries in the index to identify which entry in the index is more relevant for a keyword. This could get very complex so that the context of the content, relevancy, freshness, reliability of the content and many other factors are considered before a ranking is done.\n5. Storage architecture - The index could grow to phenomenal sizes (more so if not planned well) and so you need to decide what kind of storage you wish and how data can be retrieved quickly from many physical stores.\n6. A Web interface to query the index and display results appropriately.\n\nI'm no Guru in search engine tech - but briefly this is my understanding. Good luck!
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It can take anywhere from 3-4 weeks to 3-4 months for a site to be indexed by search engines.\n\nThere are things you should be aware about like good content, good structure, use of META tags in the HTMLs head section.  Choosing appropriate keywords and having relevant content to the keywors that you have chosen.  Inbound links from relevant sites and outbound links to relevant sites.  These are all contributing factors in your websites visibility.\n\nYou can also submit for a fee or for free into an appropriate category in the Yahoo directory.  You can also submit to various other directories.  These also increase your site's visibility.
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http://www.iwebtool.com/tools/\nhttp://www.iwebtool.com/search_engine_position
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The most common search engine type is the Crawler-Based Search Engines.\n\nCrawler-based search engines, such as Google, create their listings automatically. They "crawl" or "spider" the web, then people search through what they have found.\n\nIf you change your web pages, crawler-based search engines eventually find these changes, and that can affect how you are listed. Page titles, body copy and other elements all play a role.\n\nThere are differences in the ways various search engines work, but they all perform three basic tasks:\n\n    * They search the Internet -- or select pieces of the Internet -- based on important words.\n    * They keep an index of the words they find, and where they find them.\n    * They allow users to look for words or combinations of words found in that index. \n\nEarly search engines held an index of a few hundred thousand pages and documents, and received maybe one or two thousand inquiries each day. Today, a top search engine will index hundreds of millions of pages, and respond to tens of millions of queries per day.
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Get listed on search engines.
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how about creating a dynamicly driven website with SQL engine.  Where you can add stuff and easily search it in the search bar.  That would be a good one for you.
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(Don't Forget MSN!)...\n\nBefore I launch into descriptions of the sites, here's the list of the search engines worth looking at:\n\nGoogle http://www.google.com\nYahoo! http://www.yahoo.com\nMSN http://www.msn.com\nDogpile http://www.dogpile.com\nAskJeeves http://www.askjeeves.com and Teoma http://www.teoma.com\nHotBot http://www.hotbot.com\nAltavista http://www.altavista.com\nGigablast http://www.gigablast.com\nLooksmart http://www.looksmart.com\n\nYou wanted other search engines besides Google and Yahoo!, something clean and effective. Truth be told, they are both clean and effective and have an excellent index of web pages to search from.\nFrom the top:\n\n\nIn the "Big Three" you have\nGoogle http://www.google.com\nThis engine seems to be the top choice for searchers because of its clean layout, record-setting number of indexed pages, and intellegent ordering of results. Also popular about it is the way you can enter questions into it, such as math questions and movie times. You can access a list of all the cool stuff you can do in Google Search at http://www.google.com/help/features.html .\n\nYahoo! http://www.yahoo.com\nis also a popular choice for the exact same reasons. It has a slightly different but just as clean layout. It too, provides excellent results,  Yahoo! also has a large number of in-search features, listed at http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/tips/tips-01.html. Some people don't like how the main page for Yahoo! search has other things on it. However, a perfectly clean page which has only Yahoo! search can be found at http://search.yahoo.com .\n\nMSN http://www.msn.com\nTotally revamped in the recent years, Microsoft Search is an excellent search engine with great results as well. MSN also has a "clean" search page at http://search.msn.com\n\nThen the more minor (but still useful!) engines: \n\nDogPile http://www.dogpile.com\nThis engine is not actually an engine at all- the site is a "metasearch" site, which means that it grabs results from a great number of search engine and displays them all. A good choice if you're looking for something that probably won't come up in most engines. However, it is a bad choice for general searches, because you'll end up having the same results as you would have had by asking any of the popular engines.\n\nAskJeeves http://www.askjeeves.com\nAsk Jeeves initially gained fame a while back by letting you search by asking questions and responded with what seemed to be the right answer to everything. Behind the scenes about 100 editors who monitored search logs and programmed the engine to respond with the right answer next time the question was asked. Nowadays it relies on a regular search engine, known as...\n\nTeoma http://www.teoma.com\nIt has a smaller index of the web than Google and Yahoo. However, being large doesn't make much of a difference when it comes to the more popular searches, and Teoma is known to provide relevant results for the searches. Some people also like its "Refine" feature, which offers suggested topics to explore after you do a search and the "Resources" section of results which points you to pages that specifically serve as link resources about various topics.\n\nAllTheWeb http://www.alltheweb.com\nYou mentioned clean and effective. Well, since Yahoo! bought out AllTheWeb, they've used it as a "cleaner" look for the exact same results of what you'd get with Yahoo!\n\nHotBot http://www.hotbot.com\nHotBot simply lists the results from Google, Yahoo!, and Teoma. Unlike a metasearcher, HotBot does not combine the results.\n\nGigablast http://www.gigablast.com\nThis search engine has a very small database, and not much used. The only thing worth mentioning is that it has complete reports on when a page was last indexed and modified.\n\nLycos http://www.lycos.com\nLycos is one of the oldest search engines on the internet. Nowadays, it gathers its results
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Please visit http://computer.howstuffworks.com/search-engine.htm
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I agree with the previous comment, however, why use an uncommon search engine when there are so many good popular ones out there. Google.com, yahoo.com, altavista.com, and ask.com are the best search engines out there, there is no reason to use any sites but these.
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Search Engine:\nA program that searches documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found. Although search engine is really a general class of programs, the term is often used to specifically describe systems like Alta Vista and Excite that enable users to search for documents on the World Wide Web and USENET newsgroups. \nTypically, a search engine works by sending out a spider to fetch as many documents as possible. Another program, called an indexer, then reads these documents and creates an index based on the words contained in each document. Each search engine uses a proprietary algorithm to create its indices such that, ideally, only meaningful results are returned for each query. \n\n\nDatabase:\n(1) Often abbreviated DB. A collection of information organized in such a way that a computer program can quickly select desired pieces of data. You can think of a database as an electronic filing system. \nTraditional databases are organized by fields, records, and files. A field is a single piece of information; a record is one complete set of fields; and a file is a collection of records. For example, a telephone book is analogous to a file. It contains a list of records, each of which consists of three fields: name, address, and telephone number. \n\nAn alternative concept in database design is known as Hypertext. In a Hypertext database, any object, whether it be a piece of text, a picture, or a film, can be linked to any other object. Hypertext databases are particularly useful for organizing large amounts of disparate information, but they are not designed for numerical analysis. \n\nTo access information from a database, you need a database management system (DBMS). This is a collection of programs that enables you to enter, organize, and select data in a database. \n\n(2) Increasingly, the term database is used as shorthand for database management system.
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Yahoo! Search finds what you tell it to, so here are some tips for better results. \nChoose Words Carefully\nUse specific words to describe exactly what you're looking for. More general terms will give a larger number of results, so try to narrow your search.\n\nFor example: \n\ntry:  "19th century chairs"   instead of  "old furniture" \nuse: "digital camera reviews"   instead of  "electronics" \nMake sure to watch for words with more than one meaning. If you're looking for information on modeling, make sure you specify "fashion" or "clay." \n\nIncluding and Excluding Words\nBy default, Yahoo! Search returns only pages that include all of your search terms. The exception is very common words such as "it" and "how." These appear in so many places, they usually won't improve your results. \n\nIncluding Words: To include words, just type a plus sign + in front of each one. For example, If you want to see pages about the latest "in thing," search for "+in thing." \n\nExcluding Words: To exclude words, type a minus sign - in front of them. No pages containing those words will show up in your results. For example, if you want to see pages about dogs with no mention of poodles, search for "dogs -poodles." \nEither/Or\nIf you're equally interested in two or more alternatives, use OR in capital letters. For example, search for "new zealand kayaking OR biking." \nWord Order\nTo search for an exact phrase, just put quotation marks around two or more words. For example, search on "to be or not to be"  (typing the quotation marks into the box). \n\nRelated Searches \nWe'll make some suggestions too. If other people using Yahoo! Search have looked for something similar, links to related searches will appear under the search box at the top of your web results page. \n\nYahoo! Shortcuts\nYahoo! Shortcuts help you find what you're looking for in a flash. Shortcuts include a set of five keywords and one special character !. When you use Shortcut keywords as part of your Yahoo! Search, the information appears right on your search results page. \n\nFor maps, the keyword is map. (Use with a location.) \nFor weather, the keyword is weather. (Use with a location.) \nFor dictionary definitions, the keyword is define. (Use with any English word.) \nFor news, the keyword is news. (Use with any topic.) \nFor Yellow Pages listings, use any 5-digit ZIP code. \n! -- Add to any of the Shortcut key words to skip past results and take you right to the place on Yahoo! you want to go. \nMore about Shortcuts...\nSearch Meta Words \nHere is a list of special keywords that give you results unique to that special keyword instruction. You can enter these Meta words directly into the Yahoo! Search box. \n\nsite: use to find all documents within a particular domain and all it's subdomains. \nExample: site:yahoo.com \n\nhostname: use to find all documents from a particular host only. \nExample: hostname:autos.yahoo.co \n\nlink: use to find documents that link to a particular url. \nExample: link:http://autos.yahoo.com/ \n\nurl: use to find a specific document in our index. \nExample: url:http://edit.autos.yahoo.com/repair/tree/0.html \n\ninurl: use to find a specific keyword as part of indexed urls. \nExample: inurl:bulgarian \n\nintitle: use to find a specific keyword as part of the indexed titles. \nExample: intitle:Bulgarian
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Have you tried a search engine?
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Here is a great article to help you out:\n\nhttp://ezinearticles.com/?Basic-On-Page-Search-Engine-Optimization&id=214791
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1) Submit your URL to major search engines.\nFor google go to \nhttp://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=\nand\nhttp://base.google.com\nfor yahoo go to\nhttp://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.htm\nfor msn it is \nhttp://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx\n\n2) Add meta tags..i.e. keywords describing your website in meta tags.\n3) add more incoming links to your website from other websites.\n4)Share your website links with similar sites.\n5) Do have a sitemap.\n6)Prefer static html wherever possible.\n7) One tip, which is less known that make a lot of pages like your index or default page and have hidden links to them all over your website \n8) Create Error-free and static HTML as far as possible\n9) Submit your site to good directories like Yahoo, DMOZ.org, zeal.com\n10) Write a blog for your site\n11) Make a robots.txt file and put it in the root , containing name of all the searchable web pages i your website.
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Hire a SEO (Search Engine Optimizer).\n\nChad Bring is a good one.
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Make original content that people like and you shouldn't have a problem. The only thing you should modify for the search engines is the meta tags. Javascripts/plugins/scripts are just ignored and it's no big deal. Just dont use flash if you want them to make contextual references.\n\nMarkup softwares wont help. They'll still parse your page in a fraction of a second and extract/order non tagged words.
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you can do this by using meta-searchEngines.\nFew of them are listed below:\n1)www.dogpile.com\n2)www.searchallinone.com \n3)www.vivisimo.com\n4)www.copernic.com\n5)www.surfwax.com\n6)www.cactisearch.com\n7)www.genieknows.com \n+there are many more...