Build a maintain Search Engine

Job ID: 35813840

Budget: $3,000 – $5,000 USD

This is a multi-year project to rapidly deploy, maintain and expand online search tool narrowly focused on users with specific USA political interests, for example: “guns”. Project requires:

1. Search Engine implementation and creating supporting web index with functionality across different operating systems and devices.
2. Monthly updates, graphics work and extensive maintenance including security, advertising operations, analytics, social media support and network operations control.

We seek a person or more likely team, maybe more than one team to develop:
1. Working search engine (SE) focused on a specific American political interest.
2. SE able to:
a. handle up to 1 million inquiries per day;
b. work effectively with Microsoft or Google or Taboola or other proprietary advertising/auction programs;
c. utilize a ring fenced [aka white listed or approved] list of 300-500 online resources focused on “guns”;
d. scrape and maintain web index relevant to the above 300-500 (possibly more later) ring fenced online resources, some are major ones like Foxnews.com, overall involving tens of millions of pages;
e. work to implement templates for more common searches to address them more effectively;
f. if a search cannot be conducted effectively within our proprietary search environment (could be a custom built search engine, could be Amazon engine, could be API over Google or Bing), then pass the search to a major engine such as Google or Bing or Other to get answer;
NOTE: we want searches to be to us first, so that we do not have to pay Google or Bing or other search engine fees. If we cannot address the search effectively then it goes to a Google or Bing and we pay their fee.
g. advertising ops, including capacity for us to conduct key word auctions [this functionality may not be immediate], sell advertising spaces, display Google or Microsoft or Taboola, etc. advertising, implementation of PayPal or other payment gate;
h. Graphic development of response pages;
i. Support public relations and education efforts, explainer cartoons, etc.
j. Extensive analytics, A/B testing, etc.; and
k. Help establish, support and grow an extensive social media presence.

3. Initially to distinguish our searches from Google or Bing, we anticipate limiting our web index to 300-500 [ring fenced or white listed] websites relevant to “guns”.
4. The search engine must have consistent, robust functionality across multiple platforms: PC, laptop, pad, phone and different operating systems: Android and iOS.

The engine can be based on Google, Bing, Amazon or other, explain to us why one is preferable.

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Thank you.