What skills are needed to build a search engine?

Question

What skills are needed to build a search engine like Google? I'm currently learning python but I want to know what other programming languages that I need to know and what other programming skills that I need to know in order to build a search engine all the hackers use. I want to build a search engine whose users consist of the top 10,000 hackers and no one else. Can I become a billionaire like Mark Zuckerberg if the search engine like Google was built? 

Answer 1

Well, assuming your requirements don’t include making your “search engine” as scalable as google 😉 , here are the end to end basics: 

·        Presumably, your engine will present in a browse … so, HTML, CSS, JS will all be required for a well groomed and maintainable user interface.

·        Python is an excellent choice for “back-end” – it’s universally applicable to just about anything. Learn Regular Expressions! Supported by Python, but it’s not language specific.

·        Some sort of persistence / cache service … I would be thinking non-relational. Something like MongoDB storing JSON doc data …