search-engine

Where can i learn about search engine crawling and SEO?

I have asked What should i know about search engine crawling? Now i would like to know where can i learn about search engines and search engines optimization? Instead of reading dozen of articles with most saying the same thing as another i would like to read one book or resource and find everything i need to know. ...

Search Engine for website

I have website and I need to build search engine for it. I do not know how to build that, I just wrote same query to get same important value. but this does not give sense. And thanks for any help. ...

Suggestions needed for threading and process architecture for search engine software.

The software is a classic search engine. There is one portion of the app that is tasked with crawling/collecting data, and there is another that takes that data and builds an index or database. The final portion handles queries from clients, and performs a search on the data, before retrieving the results. The specific engine that I'm d...

Best search engine to use in a ebay-like system (.NET)

Hello guys... I´m developing a ebay-like system in .NET/C# ... Is Lucene a good option to a system like that? Or maybe a simpler solution ? The performance is the most important thing to that... EDIT I´ll use a Full-Text Sql Search (Is it the best option?) Any ideas, suggestions? Paul ...

Have your WebSite recognized as a Search Engine by Chrome

If I start typing stackov.. in Chrome I can see something like 'Press Tab to search stackoverflow.com'. SO is basically recognized as a Search Engine. Do you have any idea of how to implement the same sort of feature in our WebApp? I think it should be related with OpenSearch <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescriptio...

Search API, find RSS Feeds?

Im looking for a search api that will allow me to search for rss feeds. It will either be a regular search feed that then returns the content type - allowing me to filter by rss items only, or a special rss-only index. Does anyone know of any? ...

Search engine solution for Django that actually works?

The story so far: Decided to go with Xapian as search backend because it has all search-engine features I was looking for, knows about Unicode, stemming, has few dependencies and requires no bloated app-server installation on top of it. Tried Django and Haystack (plus xapian-haystack, the backend glue code to tie Haystack to Xapian) be...

building safe search engine for kids ?

my project this year : build safe search engine for kids so i need some info about : 1- where to find some studies , papers about this topic ? 2- how to make use of open source tools ? 3- what the technologies that i need to learn for my project ? and some advices please thanks . update : safe mean that when kids search for any ...

Meaning of parameters in a Google query?

Are there any ressources on what the parameters in a Google query mean? Any analysis how the Google search pages work internally? Examples would be http://www.google.com/#hl=en&amp;source=hp&amp;q=lol&amp;aq=f&amp;aqi=&amp;aql=&amp;oq=&amp;fp=45675624562456 or http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=11&amp;v...

Search Engine Optimization

Hi Guys, My neighbour popped over last night to ask me for help with regards to his company's website. He said that it used to be ranked pretty high on Google but has since fallen off completely. Now, I'm a Windows App programmer hence my request for help. I took a look and there the meta tags seem ok. I recommended that he add a <h1>h...

Getting Google results in Java? Need help!

Hello. Right now, I'm trying to get the results from Google in Java, by searching for a term. I'm using a desktop program, not an applet. That in itself isn't complicated. but then Google gave me a 403 error. Anyways, I added referrer and User Agent and then it worked. Now, my problem is that I don't get the results page from Google. In...

Writing an optimised and efficient search engine with mySQL and ColdFusion

I have a search page with the following scenarios listed below. I was told using so many conditional statements degrades performance, but I don't know if any other way to achieve the same objective. Search.cfm will processes a search made from a search bar present on all pages, with one search input (titleName). If search.cfm is access...

Prepare your site images for google image search indexing

Hi, I'm trying to understand how can I do to let my site be reachable from google image search spiders. I like how last.fm solution, and I thought to use a technique like his staff do to let google find artists images on their pages. When I'm looking for an artist and I search it on google image search, as often as not I find an image f...

How Does WordPress Block Search Engines?

Hello, If you go to wordpress admin and then settings->privacy, there are two options asking you whether you want to allow your blog to be searched though by seach engines and this option: I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors How does wordpress actually block search bots/crawlers from searching through...

what is the best way to build inverted index ?

I'm building a small web search engine for searching about 1 million web pages and I want to know What is the best way to build the inverted index ? using the DBMS or What …? from many different views like storage cost, performance, speed of indexing and query? and I don't want to use any open source project for that I want to make my ow...

Do I need to use http redirect code 302 or 307?

Suppose I have a page on my website to show media releases for the current month http://www.mysite.com/mediareleases.aspx And for reasons which it's mundane to go into*, this page MUST be given a query string with the current day of the month in order to produce this list: http://www.mysite.com/mediareleases.aspx?prevDays=18 As such I ...

Adding search for a private website

I have a login-protected website. It's an internal application and it's not avaiable to the general public hence it's not indexed by any search engine. My application is developed on the Google App Engine. I would like to add a search engine but obviously without the need to public index it. There's any solution avaiable from Google/Bi...

Solr and web site indexing to create a site search.

I was trying to build a 'site search' on a simple http site. I have a site, lets call it www.mycompany.com, that is pure html. Is there an easy way to use solr to index the entire site to build a full text search using solr as the engine? I googled for a bit and could not find anything specific of the type: Do A Do B ... profit! Le...

solr vs xapian : which one gived you the more meaningful results?

I am currently using whoosh to dev a website, and I'll need to choose something more powerful once the website will be in production. If anyone of you used both of these engines, which one gave you the most meaningful results one the long road? ...

Does redirecting from http://domain.com to http://www.domain.com Avoids Duplicate Content On Google?

Hi, I heared that if i don't redirect the user from http://domain.com to http://www.domain.com it will causes duplicate content of my website on google & other search engines, is that happening? and What is the Mod rewrite Syntax to do it through .htaccess ? Thanks ...