Simple "search" and "answer" application

Question

Im looking to build an application that is a simple search and answer function.

Essentially, the design will be similar to the home page of google, except when you hit search, it will only return one result, the "answer"

Up to this point, almost all of my work has been design + marketing for the web. I want to get into bigger projects, and think a simple application such as this one would be exactly what I am looking for (since I want to do it anyways)

What I am asking is what is the best language to do this in? Any links for an example such as this or source code, and all the feedback you have. Thanks

Answer 1

There is no "best" language for this application. Any language or environment you choose will work. Other factors to consider though: which language are you most comfortable with? Next, you have to consider the mechanism that the answer will be determined. Is it some sort of expert system? Then you may consider languages that support those to create the expert engine in the backend and use web technologies such as PHP, Java or .NET to create the front end.

Answer 2

The most popular are usually:

• PHP
• asp.net (C#)
• Less popular ones include java, ruby, phython, Perl

Another scripting language that I personally like for developing websites is Lua :) It's not very used in web development though. Maybe I'm just crazy.