search-engine

Where do new companies in IT Business developing softwares, websites and databases find work from?

Hi There, i am a qualified software engineer who has experience working on designing softwares, databases and websites but I don't understand how do companies find work for software database adn website development? Any advice will be much appreciated.. I do realise it may make me look dumb and may attract negative feedback but all throu...

Does the position of a slug in a URL matter?

FOR SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION PURPOSES, does the location of the slug within a URL matter? There's no doubt that you could code URL slugs to work properly in any order. I'm more interested to know if search engines place different weights to portions of the URL on the right-hand-side vs the left-hand-side For example, here the slug ap...

How Prevent Google Duplicate Content Problem | Multi Site

I'm about to launch a multi-domain affiliate sites which have one thing in common which is content. Reading about the problem with duplicate content and Google I'm a little worried that the parent domain or sub sites could get banned from the search engine for duplicated content. If I have 100 sites with similar look and feel and basica...

How to switch Google (and Wikipedia) search box suggestion with radio button?

Hi! I added Google and Wikipedia search box to a page and I'm looking for a way to change the suggestions depending on the selected radio button. In fact the suggestions language should change depending on the language checked. Here is my actual code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtm...

asp.net program affects result in search engine

Hello, Is there anything I can do while coding in Asp.net to make my website come on top in search engines for general keywords? (For example : cars...assuming that my site is wwww.joshautos123.com) Thanks ...

Crawl entire web site content

I'm specifying a content source as an internal non sharepoint web site e.g. http://internal.example.com However a full crawl only ever crawls 22 pages in the root of the web site (there are 100), unless i specify 'Custom - specify page depth and server hops:' and leave the 'Page Depth' and 'Limit Server Hops' as Unlimited Which then m...

Do I absolutely need a robots.txt file for my public-facing web sites?

I'm reviewing a couple of my web sites to make sure my SEO bases are covered. There are no private pages on the site in question, and we want all pages to be indexed. Does including a robots.txt file anyway, even if it isn't needed, make my site look more reputable and important to Google? ...

Search engines and migrating a static site to a web app

We're replacing a static web-site with a Django app. All the uri's will change. The current web-site has a substantial presence on the search engine rankings and we don't want to mess that up too much. Is it simply a case of setting up 301 redirects to the new uri's, or is there something more subtle we need to do to ensure the searc...

What will be the fastest way to implement a good search on my site?

Say I have a site like stackoverflow. I need to add a search functionality, I need it to be good. I don't care if I have to add a logo (like if I am using a google search). What options do I have, with minimum of development and minimum server type dependency. I am currently on Lamp (php). EDIT: Pardon, but I am talking about an open...

Is there a search engine for web sites html/js code?

Do you know of a search engine that looks in web sites code, not only text? for example to find all the websites that use Jquery I may search for 'jquery-1.3.2.min.js' .... (I know the question is not directly a programming question but the answer can be very helpful to programmers) ...

Storage of sparse numerical data (e.g. inverted index) - any conventions?

Is there an accepted way of storing and accessing sparse numerical data (such as a search engine's inverted index / term by document matrix)? An RDBMS seems inappropriate for this kind of data, but it would be good to have it stored in some kind of database (saved to disk, running as a server, etc). Is there an accepted solution for this...

Best search engine for research organisation's website

We are a government funded research organisation providing HPC facilities. The website has a lot of information and we would like to make it available through a search engine. Can you recommend an open source, preferably Java or Python based project, that provides fast and deep search results. Thanks ...

Can search engines index JavaScript generated web pages?

Can search engines such as Google index JavaScript generated web pages? When you right click and select view source in a page that is generated by JavaScript (e.g using GWT) you do not see the dynamically generated HTML. I suppose that if a search engine also cannot see the generated HTML then there is not much to index, right? ...

Question about joining two mysql tables.

I am trying to join two tables; the purpose being able to search and display event information for an artist that is entered by the user. The tables are as follows: artist table: [id],[name] events table: [id],[artist_id],[venue_name],[city],[state],[date],[time] I created a search engine, but what I want to do is when an artist name...

Install search provider [Internet Explorer]

This seems like a basic task, but I'm unable to find a solution for some reason. How can I programmatically install a search provider in Internet Explorer? I'm using NSIS for my installer. ...

Need a creative idea: How can I search for all web sites that use a certain javascript library or widget?

All Search engines I know of search text. I want to search for example for all the sites that use jQuery. Any creative idea on how to do that? ...

How does Google decide to display video/image results?

Is there any research available on how/when search-engines decide to display pictures/videos in their search results based on their queries? For example, most people names generate video results from Youtube on Google. However, it is certainly not trivial as the above assumption because - "michael jackson" displays image results and "ge...

Google Wonderwheel: How does it stack?

Hi there, My buddies and I were having a discussion over the effectiveness and efficiency of google wonderwheel. We have put aside the pretty animated effects it has, and are looking at the impact it would have on the effectiveness of a user in coming to an answer. I've noticed that Wonderwheel breaks if you search isn't exact (try 'Pla...

Open Source Comparison Engines

A long time ago, Lycos had a comparison engine that is now defunct. I would like to find an open source equivalent of this offering... ...

search programm

Hello, I have a reocred file and I need to make a programm tha should help fined any word into that recored by typing a word into a search field, the recored file is contain a list of words so I need ta serach into that list to fined any word that could be similar to my word ...