Using Zoom as a External Search Engine

[rudai123]

Is there any reason not to use Zoom as an external site search engine? For instance, I want to create a search Engine for all Guitar suppliers in the US.

[David]

Should be fine. As long as you have the time to create a list of guitar suppliers and load into Zoom the the web sites as start points.

If you get to the point where you have more than 50,000 pages indexed, you need to think about things like. Does my PC have enough RAM, is my internet connection fast enough to spider these pages quick enough, is my web hosting account sufficient for what I am doing, can I run the faster CGI script instead of PHP or ASP, should I limit the number of pages indexed per site, etc...

Creating a big search engine takes more capacity planning than creating a small one.