search-engine

can HBase , MapReduce and HDFS can work on a single machine having Hdoop installed and running on it ?

I am working on a search engine design, which is to be run on cloud. We have just started, and have not much idea about Hdoop. Can anyone tell if HBase , MapReduce and HDFS can work on a single machine having Hdoop installed and running on it ? ...

How would TIMTHUMB.PHP affect the SEO of a website, or Image SEO

If I use timthumb.php for reducing images and posting them automatically with the appropiate size on my website sounds fantastic. Saves a lot of work. But would that affect the results in http://images.google.com ? Let's say I have a photo named "my-dalmatian-dog.jpg" and then I apply tinthumb.php..it would be changed to some other name...

Microsoft Bing?

What is the name of the algorithm used in Microsoft BING Search engine? ...

How search engines find the content duplication of a website.

Hi, I would like to know how search engines find that a content in the website is a duplicate content? And also how do they determine that it might be duplicated, do they use any specific technique or any tag line for it? Please provide me suggestion. ...

Why do search engines ignore symbols?

Searching for symbols is a common in programming, especially when you are new to a language. For example, I had a question about the :: operator in Python, and that is not searchable. People looking for things like this or Object [] (array of Objects), would not find what they want. Why do search engines seem to ignore symbols complete...

How can I find a city and country based on a user search?

I am trying to search a SQL Server 2008 table (containing about 7 million records) for cites and countries based on a user input type text. The search string that I get from the user can be anything like: "Hotels in San Francisco, US" or "New York, NY" or "Paris sddgdfgxx" or "Toronto Canada" terms are not allways separated by comma an...

Is there a command to search for a string within all man pages installed in the man-db

I know that if I can't remember a command I can just look it up on Google. But this should be possible from the shell itself. If I could output all the man-pages, I could run a grep on them and find what I was looking for. Is there a simple command line man-search-engine out there that indexes all the words in all the man pages and let...

automatic redirection/geo-location and search engine optimization - Detect if its a spider that is accessing site

I have a site who's search ranking has plumetted. It should be quite SEO friendly because its built using XHtml/CSS and has been run against the SEO toolkit. The only thing I can think that may be annoying Google is The keywords are the same accross the whole site rather than being page specific. (cant see why this would be a massive ...

how to implement color search with sphinx?

hello, searching a photo by dominant colors using mysql is quite simple. assuming that the r,g,b values of the most dominant colors of the photo is already stored in the database, this could be achieved for example by something like: SELECT * FROM colors WHERE ABS(dominant_r - :r) < :threshold AND ABS(dominant_g - :g) < :thresh...

How do I hide Drupal nodes that shouldn't be directly accessed from users and search engines

I have seen many somewhat similar questions, but nothing quite what I'm looking for. So at the risk of being told this is a duplicate... here it goes. I've found that there are times I have a node that simply contains content that will be displayed somewhere else, but shouldn't be viewed directly. That is, no one should ever go to node/...

Which url is more search engine friendly ( using _ (under score) or - (dash)?

i am trying to implement routing on my website. and just want to know which typr of url is more indexed by goolgle? examples : http://www.example.com/contact_us http://www.example.com/contact-us also i have one more senario http://www.example.com/products-services http://www.example.com/products-and-services if i use "and" in ur...

Flash website + google indexing

This question has prolly been asked a zillion times and google is full of it but... I can't find nothing concrete. So I got a Flash website that loads html files. In the html files is the content (text). Google doesn't find the text (tried quoting a line for example to get precise search results). So what must I do? ...

Advice on searching with PHP and MySQL

Basically, I got the same problem as this guy but I also need relevancy: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1878899/php-smart-search-engine-to-search-mysql-tables-advice But, I can't use Sphinx or Lucene (shared hosting)... I can use LIKE but that has not relevancy so does anyone know a good PHP class that does create relevancy? So I ...

does google crawler look keyword inside meta tag.

hi all i want to know that whether google look inside meta tag. ...

Where to learn SEO for free - basic to beginner?

Where to learn SEO for free - basic to beginner? Suggest any -Website -online book -software -tools Thanks and regards, jeet ...

search query "alien vs predator"

How do you do so that when you search for "alien vs predator" you also get results with the string "alienS vs predator" with the "S" example http://www.torrentz.com/search?q=alien+vs+predator how have they implemented this? is this advanced search engine stuff? ...

More advanced searching of MySQL records

I have a personnel database of 10,000 individuals. I am developing a PHP CMS to manage and search these individuals. One of the complaints about the old system was that you had to search for names by their exact spelling, else no results would return. The old system was using MySQL LIKE statements, which are too exact (and I do not wa...

Is it good to start a website with keyword very popular or not so popular?

I am planning to launch a website. However, it is still undecided as there are many keywords on google to begin with. My question is whether it is good to be a part of well established keyword with millions of search result already OR would it be good to be part of keyword who have search result less than 100 or none. Thanks and regard...

Instant search considerations

Hi, I've started working on a basic instant search tool. This is a workflow draft. User presses a key Current value gets passed to the function which will make an Ajax call to a web service Web service will run a select on a database through LINQ-To-SQL and will retrieve a list of values that match my value. I will achieve this by u...

SPHINX SEARCH: Does searchd has to run as a service to make it work with PHP?

I've been working with this all day. But don't get it to work. I can search through CMD and get results on my indexed tables but I have problems trying to understand the sphinxapi for php, i don't even now fully how to write a query and get the results can someone help me to see if this things work. HOW DO WE WRITE A PHP QUERY FOR SP...