As you might expect, some people are already offering services based around CloudSearch (we’d be happy to do the same – just ask!) and there’s a demo of searching Wikipedia available. I’m not sure who SmackBot is but I’m slightly wary of reading any Wikipedia articles it’s had something to do with…

Of course searching Wikipedia is nothing new and I sometimes wish for a different choice of source material for search demos.

One thing that seems clear is that with the rise of cloud-based search options (here’s another from our partners Lucid Imagination, based on Apache Lucene/Solr) the cost and complication of ‘simple’ search projects could fall dramatically, applying further pressure to those companies selling closed source search engines for frankly unrealistic prices. Amazon’s offering, with their huge experience in cloud-based services, has the potential to be a game changer for the search market.

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