Google unveils do-it-yourself search engine

could you send me this "sending mail with PHP" script please

Having biased results might matter when you're searching for "points of view", but, my implementation of this tool is a version that just searches joke websites:

http://findingfunnies.com

Unless there's a bias towards humour?

I have installed it on my art gallery web site and at the moment it is restricted to searching my site itself. However it has a neat facility to add additional sites to search as you surf the web. I plan to continue to add sites containing art that I like thereby creating a search engine which is based to my own personal tastes.

Of course the reality is that only visitors to my site will use it so it is not a lot different from running any AdSense from my site. However it provides a useful additional facility to visitors to the site who have similar tastes in art.

I can't see that it adds to the risk on click fraud in any way. With respect to bias, of course its biased but thats probably the reason you visited that web site in the first place.

I'm thinking of organizations like the BBB, that could create a search engine for people to search for information and limit that search to companies that are members, or have a clean reputation. Chambers of commerce could create a search engine so that people in their communities could do a search and know that only local businesses will show up.

Yes, it's biased, it has always been biased based on something and now it can be biased toward the companies that are good at what they do.

About time a company shared it's best talents with the people. I'd be amazed if microsoft gave away it's sourcecode for windows, if the stores sold their products for a smidge more than what it costed to produce. For the way the world is, I honestly think that these guys at google are one of the few "not so corporate" crews out there. I give them full support, the world is in total turmoil with its corporations. I think someone mentioned the pay per click scams for this, well guess what.. there are always going to be pay per click scams. Maybe if they start patching the vulnerabilities in their software, then malware/worms/virus' that are loaded with keyloggers stealing cc's and harmful material sprouting spyware into pc's will be fixed. Then again, if you have a problem with you're clicker maybe you should get a copy of debian, I could be wrong. But anyway, back to the main idea, heh. Google is offering themselves up to offer people axx to their stuff, and actually get you the money they should be earning. There is not ONE SINGLE COMPANY IN THE U.S. besides them that would be without greed enough to part with even $.25 of revenue.

RE: David's Post
If a person is truly searching for unbiased information, they wouldn't use a site's built-in Google-derived search. They'd use Google itself, cross-reference against Wikipedia and their own sources.
However, this is immensely useful for someone looking for information in regard to a site they already trust - say, someone on a musical website looking for bass wouldn't have to implicitly filter out the stuff they don't want.
However, I see your point - a site masquerading as an unbiased source could easily filter out sites they take issue with. But that leads back to my first point - why bother using a limited version of Google if you're looking for what the original provides?

Upon checking this out, three features stood out:
1) You can exclude sites that you do not want in the results.
2) You can easily do so using the Google Marker.
3) Anyone can volunteer to help.

So we decided to throw up an experiment to encourage everyone to mark spam sites to be excluded from search results.

Working together as a community we may be able to radically improve the quality of the search results (or perhaps just get in a blacklisting war?)

The result is Putch - http://www.putch.com

Another potential problem with this program: It may lead to a huge boost in click-fraud. People of varying ages and maturity levels have blogs and Web sites these days. What's stop to Jimmy McNaughty (any resemblance to a real name is strictly coincidental) from adding a tailored search engine to his Web site and getting his friends to click on ads so that he can make a bit of money via the AdSense program?

To me it seems like people would have the potential of presenting biased information as a single side.

You could be at a website that doesn't outwardly have a political affiliation, but perhaps they have liberal views. If you do an honest search for a very polarizing issue such as abortion, they could force the results to only show sites that are pro-abortion, instead of provided search results from both sides of the issue.

It seems like this presents the same problem that the mainstream media has had for so long, the ability to be one-sided and get away with it.

I think the concept in general is good but I think like anything else it has the potential of misrepresenting what is supposed to be an unbiased search with biased information.

Just a thought