Setting up Microsoft Search Server 2008 and going to expose the search functionality to DotNetNuke via the webservice (Search.asmx) but we want to record the clicks in order to tailor search results by creating new Best Bets, etc. The webservice has a method "RecordClick" which is supposed to provide that functionality... problem is I c...
EDIT: I have managed to solve the problem by using: +"lorem ipsum" +type:photo +"lorem ipsum" +type:video Another problem though is that the index is returning correct results but with wrong id (id is a primary key). More specifically, id fields returned are 1 less than real ids (id - 1) in the database which I use to build the index...
This is partly an algorithm question and partly a programming question. I'm not much into machine learning, but I'm curious and unless there's too much math I can read a few papers up(or even few articles which describe the essential idea ). So the questions are : How does Google improve its search technology when a human assists in im...
I think that Bing from Microsoft is really cool. I have found myself using both Google and Bing almost half and half now. How are other developers using this new search engine? ...
Well, I have a Silverlight application with many internal pages, and I want search engine to index my Silverlight content. Besides I want to manage my Silverlight content for search engine and reader effectively. How can I do Search Engine Optimization “SEO” for Silverlight? Thanks ...
i.e. http://www.somesite.com/subject?page=3 If query strings are used to control the pagination, won't search engines only be able to index the first page (i.e. the page without the query string)? This is usually how I've seen pagination done, but I'm wondering if there is a better way for search engine indexing? ...
I'm doing a presentation for Sr. Tech Managers and trying to figure out a quick overview of the tech differences of Google and FAST. Yes, I've googled, but nothing concrete (except marketing materials). ...
For search engines and website crawlers, does the url order matter in a XML sitemap? Currently when the sitemap is generated, I order the website urls sequentially using a unique id, in the database. Should I order the urls in date order? Sequential Sitemap <urlset> <url> <loc>http://example.com/</loc> <lastmod>2009-08-1...
I'd like to display my page differently for the visitor based on if they came from a search engine or not. I guess I'm detecting search engine referrals? I'd also like to know the search terms used to arrive at my site. My solution so far is this: 1) Filter on the HTTP request referers which contain common search engine URLs, i.e. http...
Hello, I'm running a website with 3 domains redirecting to that domain (without a index file, just by admin panel at the provider). Is there a way to SEO these redirecting domains? When I was thinking about this I realized that by redirecting you probably can't upload a .htaccess because you don't have webspace. I think it's not possib...
Questions: How do you search for non-alphanumeric characters when using Google? Why doesn't Google always interpret strings enclosed within double-quotes literally? What is Google's escape character e.g. how would I search for something that contains a double-quote? Backgound: I am currently learning Grails. I was reading Masterin...
"Sounds like" based on Soundex or Metaphone is not uncommon option for proprietary full text search in databases ( Oracle, MS SQL Server ) or open source search engines such as Lucene. I have a difficulty using Google :) to find out whether anything similar does exist for advanced Google search. Regarding wildcard search it seems to be...
Time and again when I search for a topic on Google, Google returns me the results and also prints out some stats like "Results 1 - 10 of about 8,850,000 for j2me. (0.24 seconds)" I notice that the seconds taken by Google to serve the results are in fraction of a second range. How does Google serve pages so fast, what kind of database ...
I'm guessing that using PHP's header("location: here.html") would be much better javascript's window.location("here.html") as far as search engine visibility goes. I would assume that the server redirect would show google the correct content and the javascript redirect would be read as a page with the javascript redirect code in it. Rea...
Googlebot has been occasionally indexing one of our sites with a bad query string parameter. I am not sure how it is getting this query string parameter (there don't appear to be any sites linking to us with bad links, and nothing in our site is inserting the bad value). The bad parameter causes the site to throw a 500 error, as we expec...
If you look at the url of the stackoverflow.com you can see that the url is like: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask or http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1284899/designing-a-website-for-both-javascript-script-support-and-not-support or some very popular websites like wikipedia have the same format (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQ) ...
I'm working on a project that would be greatly optimized if I am able to restrict a Google, Yahoo or Bing/Live search to just the < meta content="xyz" name="description" /> tag. I read all the help pages and api docs and can't seem to find a way to do it, and I thought I'd give it a shot here on Stack Overflow. Thanks :) ...
Hello, I just wondering whenever exist a way to read the unstored, but indexed field in Lucene index? I need because I have an index and I'm going to iterate over all documents in the index in order to apply some analysis and I need to update those documents later, in order to update I need first delete and when to re-insert the docume...
I am developing a webapp using codeigniter (mvc) and php. I was wondering how do I create a sitemap for search engines when my contact is dynamic? Are there best practices for this, or is there a way to automate the process? I ask because content will be constantly and rapidly added so I'd like the sitemap be recent. Thanks Update: to...
Hi, I have been reading up on SEO tactics and I stumbled across a very respected SEO company that says they use/implement "information sites". These sites would be used as a "starting page" for a product or service. They say that they are optimized to accommodate current search engine algorithms. This sounds a lot like the use of doorw...