Want a sneak preview of one of the scripts Nicecoder is working on?

Check out BinaryNews.com - Usenet Search Engine - Search Binaries

This is a script I comissioned just over 2 years ago privately. A few months ago I sent it to the programmers to expand on and the results are good so far.

There's a few small bugs to work out and the admin area needs some things added, but otherwise it's working very well.

Now comes the question I know someone is going to ask. Can this run on a shared host? The answer is yes, but only if you limit the groups to groups that don't have a lot of headers.

If you add some big groups you'll quickly find that the database will fill up very easily.

How big can the database get? Inside the database the message ID's are saved. In 1MB of space there will be an AVERAGE of 11000 message ID's.

Right now on usenet there are 12 MILLION articles posted daily. Yes MILLION.

Now lets assume that you want to keep the articles in your database for 3 months (90 days). So we do some simple math

12 million x 90 days / 11000 = 98181 MB

OUCH, thats 98GB of data IF you would, and could, keep and get all message ID's on usenet.

Fortunately not all of those message ID's are from binaries, but you get the point, they can add up REAL fast.

With this script you can offer a free or paid service for searching usenet, and if you're creative enough, you can see the opportunities for income even with a specialized usenet search (mp3's, pdf's, images, flac etc)

Let me know what you think!