search-engine

How do you notify Google through code that there is a updated sitemap?

On this page of Google help: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/sitemap-generator.html#submitting Google mentions that there is a way to notify them of an updated sitemap using an HTTP request. When you click the link, it takes you to this page: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34592&topi...

New web standards?

Google, Microsoft, & Yahoo now plan to create a new web standard. Is this going to be an advantage to web developers using html, ajax as development? Will there be no browser issues if this happens? Are they doing this new standards to beat adobe's flash player, and mxml conventions? What's the best move for web app development today ...

Why use page title in URL?

Why some sites, most blogs, use title of the post in the url? As in: http://www.geek.com.br/blogs/832697632/posts/9360-uni-o-europ-ia-pretende-apoiar-conex-o-universal-para-celulares Will this improve google indexing? EDIT: this is a duplicate of Why do some websites add “Slugs” to the end of URLs? ...

Represent non-ASCII characters in URLS gives better page rank in search engines?

Most part of the world uses non-ASCII characters. But some idioms use things like é, ö, á, ã, õ etc, which can be "converted" to ascii. Suppose the title of the post is: Configuração é fácil! How to represent that in a URL? www.myblog.com/post/1200/Configura__o-_-f_cil A much better representantion is www.myblog.com/post/1200/Confi...

Google search returns blank page

When I do a google search for any string it is retuning a blank page. The html source of the returned page looks like this. <html> <body> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0; URL=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=test+search&amp;meta=&amp;safe=active"&gt; </body> </html> i.e. there is nothing at all returned to the browser. ...

How do I set access permissions for the search web service in Search Server 2008 Express?

I have installed Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express on a Windows 2003 server and created a search content source (our corporate website) for testing. I can search this source just fine from the Search Centre. From an ASP.NET web application I am trying to query the provided web service as described here I am using impersonation sett...

Parsing and formatting search results

Search: Scripting+Language Web+Pages Applications Results: ...scripting language originally...producing dynamic web pages. It has...graphical applications....purpose scripting language that is...d creating web pages as output... Suppose I want a value that represents the amount of characters to allow as padding on eit...

How would you design a good search UI?

I want to provide my users with an 'advanced' search engine. I basically have a lot of search criteria to chose from : some are very simple/common and will be largely use (ie time period, item id) some are a bit less mainstream and some won't be used a lot, but I still want to provide them Overall, I have around 30+ criteria to chose...

Which are the best alternatives to Lucene?

-edit- The question do not says it all. :) It may run on Unix and it will be used for email searching (Dovecot, Postfix and maildir). Lucene is not a problem, im just analyzing some alternatives. ...

SEO of asp.net meta tags

Simply wondering if any SEO specialists out there know if Google or other search providers index meta differently because of the id generated by asp.net ...

Why does a google search through the google api return different results to a search in the web page?

I think the question pretty much sums up my query. ...

High level explanation of Similarity Class for Lucene?

Do you know where I can find a high level explanation of Lucene Similarity Class algorithm. I will like to understand it without having to decipher all the math and terms involved with searching and indexing. ...

What's the best document search engine to integrate into Perl code?

What is the best document search engine (perhaps Plucene?) to integrate into Perl code that allows customizing and tuning the search algorithm? ...

Open Source Projects for Web Search Engine Components

Can someone put a list of open source software of each of these components included in the question "Building a web search engine"? That will save many people's time in the search for high quality open source components. Component List: Crawler Parser Indexer Ranking Engine Front End ...

Anyone use Recommind, Autonomy or FAST with .NET?

We're evaluating some enterprise search servers and would like to have some developer feedback on the API's of Recommind, Autonomy and/or FAST (now owned by Microsoft). We're a .NET shop so we'd either be using web services (xml) or some kind of API wrappers to hook into the search application. Anyone use any of these products before -...

Does Google offer the ability to ban results systematically from certain sources without the -site string?

I know the topic of removing www.experts-echange.com has been beaten to death but having to type -site:www.experts-exchange.com is tedious. Even the ability to auto add strings to a query would solve this problem. I can probably wrap this into some wget mess but this seems like basic functionality many users would base their search eng...

Default fields available in a Search Server web content source?

Hi, I'm using the search web service on a Search Server 2008 Express install in a web application. I have created the content source and scope and can successfully query the web service if I specify the fields I wish to return. What I cannot find out is what fields are available to me, if I modify the query to "SELECT * ..." then I get...

How to make a search engine for my apps

Duplicate of: What is a good search engine for embedding in a web site. I mainly build apps in asp.net using a ms sql backend. Does anyone have a dummy guide for making a good search engine? I've been told not to you like statements in my stored procedures. If I don't use like, how do I search for terms with in all my columns conta...

How do you build a torrent file indexer?

I am curious about the technology behind a search engine like torrentz.com. From what I could observe, it doesn't host any torrent files, but rather connects you to other servers that do. you search for keywords, it brings up a list of potential titles matching your search. then you pick one of these and it provides you with another...

Is there a search engine that searches for the exact words you enter, exactly how you entered them?

Is there a search engine that has some of the following features? Case sensitive: "LaTeX" != "latex" Doesn't mess with punctuation in a quoted phrase: "Yes!!!" != "Yes?" Doesn't search for words that have the same stem: "fracture" != "fractured" ...