Found a course on Udacity that teaches how to make a search engine and social network as projects for introducing you to #CompSci! :o
https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-computer-science--cs101
This might help me get closer to making local search engines of my own. :)
@bthall ACM Queue has an interesting article on search engine construction…
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=988407
(There's something sort of sad about the premier organization for cutting edge computing STILL USING COLDFUSION.)