If you used SWISH-E, there would still be a lot of opportunities for writing a bunch of code 🙂 You should be able to write a “filter” or something so the engine gets given some metadata/properties like which newsgroup a post is from, and then provide a field for specifying that in the search form. It depends on what you find fun obviously 🙂

lol maybe. I’ve nearly gotten a “solution” for altavista, and I kind of like how this required middleware to work against it’s built in limitations.

I also found a linkbait site with all the utzoo stuff extracted. If I was smart I’d make a better one. It wouldn’t take tooooo much effort. Just time I suppose.