a new search engine?

[Gio~Logist]

My friend and I have the idea to start a new search engine and email account site. So far the name we have been thinking most on is "Wowdoo". My friend is an experienced coder and is quite good eith things like this. However, i myself have some questions.

First off, i know that if we do the thing with the email accounts we will need a hella lot of space. Am i correct? and if so, how much?

Also, once we start getting alot of people comming and alot of traffic we will neded more bandwith. How much do you guys suggest?

As far as the emailing and search engine system is concerened, we pretty much have that covered. However, another thing we wanted to do is that gaming thing they have on yahoo in which you can play games against actualy people in a chat and stuff. How difficult is this? And do any of you guys know how to do it?

I myself will be helping most with the search engine and emailing system considering i am quite familiar with this. However, as far as all these other little things are concerned. Im just glad i have a friend that's good at coding and a bunch of coders who can support me from vb.com.

oh and my last question is for the future so i can start looking into it. Depending on how good we do, and if we do REAL REAL good then we might just go and try to make an instant messaging system. Now i know this is VERY difficult probably, my friend has some knowledge i believe. But eeeemmm How hard is this exactly and do any of you guys have experience with this?