Are you building the search engine because you want to combine results from multiple public search engines, or to filter adult content in the results, or both? Google has a SafeSearch feature that works pretty well. It's set in preferences or as a flag on the URL line. You could simply wget the google search URL (with the flag set) and parse the results. Depending on the scope of what you're doing, Google has an API for querying their search engine from your own applications, and you can buy queries (to be on the legit side) if you're using this. I only recommend this because it's a much easier solution than trying to build your own content filter. Remember, most porn sites are not operated by people that have high moral standards. They go to great lenghts to get around content filters. It's best to use the power of Google's SafeSearch, than to play Whack-a-mole with the sites that make it past your filter. And you didn't go into great detail on what you're doing, but there are potential liability issues if you are going to provide a search engine that's safe for children. You might be better off going the route Yahoo! started with and manage the database by hand. This gives you complete control over what goes into your database, at the expense of having to maintain it. Adam Maloney Systems Administrator Sihope Communications On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, B_o_B wrote: > Sunday, April 11, 2004 @ 9:07:23 AM Central Standard Time > > Hi All. I am looking at the making of a search engine, which accesses many other search engines, and then filters them. This way I can eliminate porn and make it safe for children. > > Does anyone know if their is anything out their that can do this, or > do I need to make the search engine search from a proxy that is > filtered. > > Any Thought would be greatly appreciated. > > Many Thanks, > > Robert (aka B_o_B) David Felix De Mars > West Longitude 90' 15' 43" > http://b-o-b.homelinux.com > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list