The First Steps...

By the time i decide that i should keep a note of developments of the project for my 8th Sem..along with my 2 fellow buddies who would help me along the way... Ive already started working on in at ground level. But i will do make a note of what's already done.

B/w 12- 18th Feb, I had talk with gurpreet , a guy in my college , on ideas for a good btech project.
He recommended this idea to me that Make a Application which uses API's to send queries to google, yahoo, msn regarding a particular Keyword(s) and returns the #Rank of a particular URL , in thier search results.

after 22th Feb and up till now( 1st March), i started developing .

1) Made standalone projects in VS 2005. For each of API's of Google ,MSN.
2)Yahoo API program still to be developed.
3) Still to Scout for A Project Guide

What i realized now, is that this basic idea , though a great core for a good project, isnt enough on its own. I will have to add functionalities to it... maybe add this as a web service on a website.
One of my teachers , Mrs Namita , also adviced me the same. She asked me to show " no of clicks" along with the URL rank , right now i dont think that will be possible.

AS of now, I have plans to add graphs to it, add database functionality... so people can see it in diagrams , thier growth upwards or downwards on the search engine's index.
We will see where we end up finally.

Gotta complete this project by Mid - April ( max )