First of all I have to say that the usage of the search engine
has been way beyond expectations. I don't have the statistics
from the 2 sites it was run on before but in the current location
(http://www.pronics.com/~kinki/nt/) the statistics are as follows:

Month Hits Hits/d Unique visitors (by IP)
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Oct 4460 143 590
Nov 5997 199 655
Dec 5486 304 560 (1.12-18.12)

But the real point I am posting is that during holidays I am (finally)
going to start the complete recode of the search engine. Therefore I am
asking you to mudmail ideas how it should be.

Since I know you are going to ask me to do things that are not doable -
please keep in mind that all the info it get is from and only from sales
channel. (I will implement sales newsgroup as soon as it comes available
via http)

Many people have requested for eq-stat database built in to it but
this has 2 serious problems to overcome. First is that people really do
not tell the stats - and if they tell, they might be wrong. The other
problem is how to update when eq gets tuned.

One workaround would be that I simply maded the database maintained by
other approved players - this raises other problems though (logging in
etc.) I simply have no time to administrate that kind of stuff, so it's
not going to happen unless our beloved arches in their infinite wisdom
want me to put my eqprice engine on bat's website and that way make it
possible to log in with ones bat character login.

Codewise, first I need to code a decent parser for the sales channel
(working on it) - this should not be TOO hard (doing it with python most
propably.) The database itself is going to be MySQL and the access method
will be PHP.

++Noitis