Over the past two weeks I've been working on building a really crude search engine (AskToby.PHP), and have just finished managing to hack together a working prototype. The prototype has tons of bugs, only looks good on one monitor size, but it runs! At the moment its running on a Virtual Private Server crawling along at about 18,000 sites a day, crawling only the homepage of each site. But I think it has the potential to run much faster on a home-web server as my VPS appears to have much less bandwidth than my personal internet service. Anyway... If anyone's interested in working on a fun open source project hit me up.
You can check out Version 2 of AskToby.PHP running on my website here:
https://personalhomepage.xyz/asktoby.html
And you can check out my hacked-together code here:
https://github.com/crispytx/asktoby.php
If anyone is interested in contributing, feel free to contact me: