I've been considering open sourcing my search engine. Search is like a fractal of interesting problems, and pretty much every aspect of the search engine has known areas of improvement, so I'm sure it would be a fun project to collaborate on.
I'm honestly a bit at a loss how to actually go about it, since it's not an application or a library where others are expected to run it, but a fairly bespoke piece of web service that requires specific hardware configurations to do anything useful (as well as extremely unwieldy datasets). The only rolemodel I can find is something like Wikipedia.
I've been considering open sourcing my search engine. Search is like a fractal of interesting problems, and pretty much every aspect of the search engine has known areas of improvement, so I'm sure it would be a fun project to collaborate on.
I'm honestly a bit at a loss how to actually go about it, since it's not an application or a library where others are expected to run it, but a fairly bespoke piece of web service that requires specific hardware configurations to do anything useful (as well as extremely unwieldy datasets). The only rolemodel I can find is something like Wikipedia.
I'm curious if anyone knows good "role models"?