In a similar vein, I used Google's Ajax Search API and made this last year: http://chir.ag/projects/drop-search/ http://chir.ag/projects/drop-search/ (Google ev

In a similar vein, I used Google's Ajax Search API and made this last year: http://chir.ag/projects/drop-search/ http://chir.ag/projects/drop-search/ (Google even interviewed me for it: http://googledata.org/google-code/google-narratives-series-chirag-mehta/ http://googledata.org/google-code/google-narratives-series-c... ). 'Drop Search' lets any site owner create a search box customized to their own domains using just a few lines of JS code. There's an example of drop-search at my own site in the top-right corner: http://chir.ag http://chir.ag (search: cat). It does not have the neat lightbox + readability view that metahint has. But it does have excerpts from search results. Metahint users will most likely want that. Personally, I think metahint is a great execution of a good idea and that's partly why I made Drop Search. It didn't become popular but then I created it as a mini project for fun and not a startup with marketing goals. I wish you the best of luck. I would suggest to you that you take a look at Google's APIs. I don't think the search results are bad at all. I haven't tried Bing. Creating your own search engine is kind of a big deal. Ask Gabriel Weinberg @ DDG.