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This is the most ridiculous blog post I read this week. This guy at AltSearchEngine is looking for an entire search engine built for him for $10. To be fair, he will give you $100,000 if he can sell it for a cool million.
He has put other restrictions also. For example you can only write the engine in C++, a computer programming language. You cannot write it in any other programming language. What he is afraid of if it is written in another language? I don’t know. Ask him.
Of course, he does not mention how much he will pay you if he sells it for half a million dollars. You are out of luck. You have to be content with $10.
He has conjured up a nice business model – pay people ridiculously low wage with a promise to pay in the future if he can make a fortune. If have to give credit to him for coming up with such a brilliant idea. May be somebody in Afghanistan will take up his offer.
While I am at the search engine, I have to mention another ridiculous search engine I happened to discover this week. It is called SearchWinds. This guy pulls out 10 results for each query from Microsoft’s newly launched Bing (promoted as a decision engine) and asks searchers to vote on the results.
As if the the searcher does not have any better thing do. Not only she has to be content with the limited search results brought from a third party search engine, she also has to waste her time voting on the results.
If you are a desperate person living in Afghanistan with C++ skills, take up the $10 project. If you don’t have any better thing to do, go vote on search results.
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