EveKnows.com is an experimental search engine, currently under heavy development. It is the brain-child of a Computer Science major looking for a real-life application of the mathematics and computational theory absorbed during university, with the neat addition of providing an excuse to look at boobies much of the day. This blog is intended to be a place to discuss development. Community feedback is very much welcome, whether bug reports, feature suggestions, or questions about the search engine’s architecture. This is as much a learning experience as anything else; we’re not starting out with an enterprise-class data center, just a few machines performing dedicated indexing tasks and a shared server for publishing the results.

The main focus of EveKnows.com is gallery searching. For the time being, this is limited to picture galleries; movie galleries will be added later. The idea is to create a search engine which is always up to date with the latest promotional galleries, making it incredibly easy to find the freshest content of your favorite porn stars.

For those interested, here’s what we have thus far:

• A reverse-index engine using keyword scoring.
• Weighted parsing includes URLs and titles for added accuracy.
• The engine is currently written in Perl. Perl is a wonderful language which, following the engine’s design, allowed a prototype to be developed in 24 hours.
• The search database is currently housed on a dedicated MySQL 5 server. We’ll see how this scales as the database grows…
• A spider which searches TGPs for gallery links. When a gallery is found, it is indexed, thumb-nailed, and added to the database.

Once the prototype is working reasonably well, it will be moved to http://eveknows.com and made available for public use.

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