search-engine

Cakephp, Route old google search results to new home page

Hi there, I have created a new website for a company and I would like all the previous search engine results to be redirected. Since there were quite a few pages and most of them where using an id I would like to use something generic instead of re-routing all the old pages. My first thought was to do that: Router::connect('/*', ...

Sorting å,ä,ö characters in MS Search Server 2008

Hello, Search Server treats å,ä,ö characters as a,a,o when i order by title i.e. Is there some way to make the search result to order them correctly? Best regards, Mattias ...

Solr associations

Hi all, The last couple of days we are thinking of using Solr as our search engine of choice. Most of the features we need are out of the box or can be easily configured. There is however one feature that we absolutely need that seems to be well hidden (or missing) in Solr. I'll try to explain with an example. We have lots of documents...

Open source LINQ search engine for website

I want to add a search engine to my website. I want it to handler boolean searches and give me a list of results in order or best match. I need it to be able to work with LINQ, because I want to add additional where clauses to the final query that gets run. I am looking for the best open source .NET search engine that works with LINQ. I...

Search engine recommendation for 100 sites of about 4000 pages

I am looking for a search engine that can regularly (daily-ish) scan about 100 pages for changes and index an associated site if changes since the last scan are found. It should be able to handle about 100 sites, each averaging 4000 pages of about 5k average size, each on a different server (but only the one centralized search engine). E...

Search Engine Theory/Algorithm

Is there any good reference for learning how search engine (google, etc..) works? Does it using any special database? Thanks. ...

How to index BigDecimal values in Lucene 3.0.1

I have some BigDecimal values which should be indexed for searching. Lucene has NumericField but it has setters only for long, double, float and int. I could store it as a String but then I would not benefit from NumericRangeQuery. How you have stored your BigDecimals? Any best practices to share? ...

SEM/SEO tasks doubts

Hello, Actually i think that i have an strong knowledge of SEO, but im having some doubts about the following: I will have to increase the position in Google of certain product pages of a company in the next months. I supposed that not only will be sufficient the following tasks: Improve usability of those pages. Change the pages ti...

how does spider in a search engine works?

How does crawler or spider in a search engine works ...

Implementing search in web application

Hi all, I am implementing an eCommerce application using ASP.Net. I would like to know if custom Google search is sufficient enough or if we plan to go implement our search functionality.. how do we go about doing it? Ideas and Suggestions and best practices are most welcome. Regards, Abdel Olakara ...

Robots.txt with one site but two domains

I have a website which has two domains added. Both domains point to the root of the website. Is it possible to alter the robots.txt so that one of the domains doesn't get crawled, while the other still does? ...

How will a search engine read data from my Ajax-based webapp?

OK, not entirely related to programming, so I'm sorry. But I'd like to know about this: So I've got a webapp. There's one column where a list of results are fetched from the database. When you click one, jQuery fetches the information associated with that result and puts it into the second column - all without a refresh and using Ajax. ...

How can I identify the "tokens" (wrong word) of a regular expression

I'm working on a fairly specialized search engine implementation in Perl, it searches (by regex) documents for specifically delimited (a subset of :punct:) strings from a text file. I'm doing the usual search engine indexing tricks, but there's a problem. Some of the search regex patterns include, by necessity, delimiters used in the fi...

how to make a search engine for website?

I want to have a search engine for my website, is any of these web search engines(like Google,yahoo,etc) provide a free service? Or I should do it by myself ...

metasearch engine

I have created an engine that combines searches from the major search engines to create a refined list of results. Main searches restrict the number of results to on average a thousand for the general public or non API subscribed people. I was wondering if anyone had ideas on how to maximize the results from lets say Google where the act...

Code a search on my tapestry website?

What is the best way to code a search for my website developed in tapestry? I have the following code in my layout.tml: <div id="search" > <form method="get" action="#"> <div> <input type="text" name="s" id="search-text" value="" /> <input type="submit" id="search-submit" value="GO" /> </div> </form> I am just unsure o...

SEO with image link alt text vs standard text-based link

Hi, I'm currently developing a website and the main navigation is made up of image links because the font used for them isn't standard. My client's only worry is will this mess up search engine optimization? Can I just add alt text to the images like "link 1" or use the name attribute of the anchor tag? Or would it be better to just ha...

How to code a 'Next in Results' within search results in PHP

Right, bit of a head scratcher, although I've got a feeling there's an obvious answer and I'm just not seeing the wood for the trees. Baiscally, using Solr as a search engine for my site, bringing back 15 results per page. When you click on a result, you get a detail page, that has a "Next in Results" link on it, which obviously forward...

How do I forbid search engine to index subdirectory /CRM with robot.txt?

Or even forbid indexing the whole site? UPDATE Is the space after : mandatory in robots.txt? ...

Meta Search Engine Architecture

The question wasn't clear enough, I think; here's an updated straight to the point question: What are the common architectures used in building a meta search engine and is there any libraries available to build that type of search engine? I'm looking at building an "enterprise" type of search engine where the indexed data could be comi...