Could you elaborate on the legal issues you're facing en route to going worldwide?

Well, a lawyer friend described some EU privacy laws and it's not clear to me what we'd have to change to comply. Or if we even have to comply, since we operate in the US. We are looking into it.

Well, I for one haven't yet met a girl in my area who enjoyed sci-fi.

Very nice. How about something that can be used worldwide (India, for instance)?

This. I'm tired of most websites assuming I'm an American.

Especially if your service doesn't involve mailing me anything, and I live in an English-speaking country anyway. You don't have to do anything special for me; just let me in!

...just don't use ZIP codes for anything. That's braindead in this day and age, even if you do live in the US. Give the user Google Maps and a pin to drop—this lets people actually be exact with their location if they want to be, without giving you an address that could be used for spam mail.

I hear you! We are moving international as quickly as possible. Has mostly to do with legal stuff. Soon!

Hear, hear!

* I built a distributed search engine for my final year college project, when my teachers and friends told me I was taking on too much. It survived two project mates walking out, and some rather dumb ones pushed in. I got a 97 for it, and consider it THE accomplishment of my college years.

* Wrote an indexing program in C that crashed a Netware network. :P

* I've read the Bhagwad Gita, the Koran, the Bible and the Tao Teh Ching. I am still an atheist.

* I've written a complete IM module at work when drunk. Oddly, this has been considered one of my better contributions to the project in that company.

* I've completed reading five Asimov novels in the course of a single day.

* I am an Indian, yet can't speak any Hindi. I have lived in the Gulf, yet can't speak any Arabic. My folks speak Konkani at home, yet I cannot speak that either. Dad knows Portuguese, yet I somehow never picked it up from him. Strangely though, I can speak French, Japanese, Quenyan and am on my way to studying Sanskrit.

> * I've read the Bhagwad Gita, the Koran, the Bible and the Tao Teh Ching. I am still an atheist.

Perhaps that's why you're an atheist ;)

Speaking Hindi is not a necessary condition for one to be considered Indian.

Tao te ching is not a religious book.

I disagree about the Tao Te Ching not being a religious book. It is the primary book of Taoism.

"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao"

That is a paraphrase from memory of the opening of the book. Which seems to me a lot like the Jewish refusal to speak the formal name for God because it is too holy and they couldn't speak it truthfully.

I've read the whole book(not saying that you haven't ;) and haven't found any references to Tao being a "God". Tao is a Way of Life, analogous to the concept of Dharma in Hinduism, Buddhism and other Indian religions.

Distributed Search Engine, can you kindly shed some light on that?

+1 for the last from a fellow countryman :) (who knows only his mother tongue and English!)

Actually, I am an INTJ.

I am, too, and I also suffer from a similar situation. :-)