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Hello.
I think I've developed a design for something which genuinely would offer improved search functionality. It's innovative and different to any approach taken at the moment I believe, and I am relatively sure that it would represent a genuine improvement over present search engine technology.
My programming knowledge is limited. There is no way I could actually develop this myself, but I could do some pseudo code (kind of a detailed blueprint design for software for programmers to follow) so this gives me a high level of confidence that the idea would work, and would make it easy for a programmer to develop.
Currently... all I have at the moment is an idea, or perhaps a complicated set of inter-linking ideas that would come together to make this. As it's software, I doubt I would ever be able to get a patent on it, and once known if it took off (as I believe it would) it would be easily replicable by the big three search engines, and they'd probably knock out their own versions in two-three months.
There are other problems stemming from the reality that all I have is the idea. if I disclose that to an investor, there is nothing to make them keep me included in the project at all. So I can't really tell anyone about it. Even disclosing it to a programmer is a bit of a problem, because again if they see the potential there's nothing to stop them releasing it themselves also.
I can't tell anyone with knowledge about it, can't try to license it, can't do anything really.
Anyone have any advice on this unusual predicament?
I think I've developed a design for something which genuinely would offer improved search functionality. It's innovative and different to any approach taken at the moment I believe, and I am relatively sure that it would represent a genuine improvement over present search engine technology.
My programming knowledge is limited. There is no way I could actually develop this myself, but I could do some pseudo code (kind of a detailed blueprint design for software for programmers to follow) so this gives me a high level of confidence that the idea would work, and would make it easy for a programmer to develop.
Currently... all I have at the moment is an idea, or perhaps a complicated set of inter-linking ideas that would come together to make this. As it's software, I doubt I would ever be able to get a patent on it, and once known if it took off (as I believe it would) it would be easily replicable by the big three search engines, and they'd probably knock out their own versions in two-three months.
There are other problems stemming from the reality that all I have is the idea. if I disclose that to an investor, there is nothing to make them keep me included in the project at all. So I can't really tell anyone about it. Even disclosing it to a programmer is a bit of a problem, because again if they see the potential there's nothing to stop them releasing it themselves also.
I can't tell anyone with knowledge about it, can't try to license it, can't do anything really.
Anyone have any advice on this unusual predicament?
