search-engine

SLI Systems search get parameters for limit

I was wondering if anyone had used the SLI Systems search system on their website. I was wanting to know the parameters for adjusting the limit of products returned per page in a search. For example this site. ...

Search query, 'order by' priority

I need implement simple search in small content table: id, name, description, content. Results must be order by priorities name description content it's mean that if searched word was found in description field, it will be shown only after all rows that have dog in name field What I did: I tried create temp table with structure lik...

Storing search result for paging and sorting

I've been implementing MS Search Server 2010 and so far its really good. Im doing the search queries via their web service, but due to the inconsistent results, im thinking about caching the result instead. The site is a small intranet (500 employees), so it shouldnt be any problems, but im curious what approach you would take if it was...

ElasticSearch, Sphinx, Lucene, Solr, Xapian. Which fits for which usage ?

I'm currently looking at other search methods rather than having a huge SQL query. I saw elasticsearch recently and played with woosh (a python implementation of a search engine). Can you argument your choices on why you chose or will choose any of those project ? ...

Search Engine Optimization with a Drop-Down menu

I would like to know the best practices concerning the usage of a drop-down menu in my website along with search engine optimization. Currently, the content of the menu uses almost 50% of the HTML code, but doesn't describe at all the real content of the page. Should I move my menu at the end of the HTML code and replace it visually at ...

Major search engine value - for programming searches

As a developer, I find myself searching for things all the time. There is know way I plan on remembering every little detail. Google has been my friend throughout my (so far not so long but developing) career. Knowing how to search properly (in any context) is important for finding the information you want quickly. As a developer, ...

Pass variable to Google Custom Search Engine

Is it possible to pass a search variable into the Google Custom Search Engine that I have embedded on my website? I can get the search engine to work, but I can't pass it a term via POST (it's coming from a search button on other pages of the website) I tried to hack the code I found here: http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/?ex...

how to completely Hide website from search engines?

Whats the best recommended way yo hide my staging website from search engines, i Googled it and found some says that i should put a metatag, and some said that i should put a text file inside my website directory, i want to know the standard way. my current website is in asp.net, while i believe that it must be a common way for any webs...

ASP.NET Search engine

I am in the process of building a corporate web site. We are looking for any open source or paid search engine based on the ASP.NET. It should be able to Search web content of all the pages in the site. All office documents. etc. If we have some searach reseults filtering based on the user type and styff. Please let me know what k...

How to prevent ASP.NET Chart Control images from being indexed?

I have some pages on my public website that display charts generated by ASP.NET Chart controls. How can I prevent them from being indexed by Google and other search engines? ...

Implementing search engine into website

Hi, I want to develop a website with its own search engine. I would like to use some sort of web framework for all this development, like Django or Rails. The search would be based on vector space model (data is represented as term-by-document matrix). Everything would be running on one server, there would be no extra server for informa...

Do you know of any search algorithms for searching through source code?

Hello everybody. My question regards the existence of a search algorithm for searching source code. In my project, I will have to implement an application that will search through a repository of source code (through a lot of source code files). All the files are from previous projects done within the company. We think that implementing...

Search engine optimization for text with different colors

We're trying to do SEO on our company website. Our company logo is just text (in image form), but has two colors in it. Our company name appears a lot in our website text/copy. For example, the sentence, This is our company name: COMPANY. is coded as, This is our company name: <span class="logo_black">COMP</span><span class="logo_red...

Country specific search in google/yahoo

I want do get urls of the blogs that are written from a specific country user I am trying to make use of google blog/forum search to get links but i want to limit the results to specific country... tips or help plssss ...

google search ajax api - collect results

Hi I need to collect from a search engine specific results (pages) that match a regular expression. Any suggestions or ideas on how to perform such a task, i need to store somewhere the extracted web pages for later use. Thanks in advance and sorry for my poor grammar. ...

Search mysql database using php

Hello! I want to implement a powerful search engine for my ecommerce application. im using php and mysql as database. Can anyone guide me how to proceed? Is the FULL TEXT feature of MYSQL good for a large volume of data? Thanks! ...

Firefox search plugin: varying result destination URL based on results returned?

I want to create a firefox search plugin with an autocomplete function. However I have a twist to the standard, "return a result and append to the URL" method. Depending on the result returned in the autocomplete how do I use a different "template URL" (or destination URL) when the user submits the search? Can you return a result and ...

What should i know about search engine crawling?

I don't mean SEO things. What should i know. Such as Do engines run javascript? Do they use cookies? Will cookies carry across crawl sessions (say cookies from today and a craw next week or month). Are selected JS filters not loaded for any reason? (Such as suspected ad which is ignored for optimization reasons?) I don't want to acc...

How we can optimize my web site for deep web searching? (Invisible web)

From Wikipedia: The deep Web (also called Deepnet, the invisible Web, dark Web or the hidden Web) refers to World Wide Web content that is not part of the surface Web, which is indexed by standard search engines. Mike Bergman, credited with coining the phrase,has said that searching on the Internet today can be com...

Should i not do write actions via GET?

I was told to never do write operations with GET request. and that search engines and other bots would follow and activate them. Assuming all write operations require a login would there be a problem having get request as a link? ...