search-engine

Should query languages have priority of operator OR higher than priority of AND ?

Traditionally most programming languages have priority of AND higher than priority of OR so that expression "a OR b AND c" is treated as "a OR (b AND c)". Following that idea search engines and query/addressing languages (css,xpath,sql,...) used the same prioritization. Wasn't it mistake ? When dealing with large enough data, that prior...

google search trends

we can get google's hot trends based on location. is it possible to extract search trends on google based on specific terms say iphone. we search history of terms related to iphone. is this facility provided by google or any other search engine. Edit: is it possible to get data on search history categorized by topic? ...

Preventing Site from Being Indexed by Search Engines

How can I prevent Google and other search engines from indexing my website? ...

Free web-based solution for intranet document search engine ?

Hello, Here is the situation : we have to offer a customer with a web-based search engine that will make a search for a given string inside a list of documents whose paths are logged in a database. The supported documents are PDF, Word, Excel, TXT. So we have 2 options : PHP ASP Anyone heard of any good open-source solutions regar...

What tools would you use to solve the DARPA Network Challenge?

http://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/ I was thinking a meta-search-engine bot on facebook / twitter / google might be good, if you could collate the hits and map them geographically. ...

Search select statement

I am creating a page which would have different field for the user to search from. e.g. search by: Grade: -dropdownlist1- Student name: -dropdownlist2- Student ID: -dropdownlist3- Lessons: -dropdownlist4- Year: -dropdownlist5- How do I write the select statement for this? Each dropdownlist would need a select statement which woul...

SEO, links and headers

From an SEO perspective, what should I consider when deciding between these three markup structures? (or others if I'm missing something obvious) <h2><a href="...">My Title</a></h2> <p>...intro text...</p> <a href="..."><h2>My Title</h2></a> <p>...intro text...</p> <h2>My Title</h2> <p>...intro text... Read more about <a href="...">My...

solr + Heritrix

how is it possible to integrate solr with heritrix ? I want to archive a site using heritrix and then index and search locally this file using solr. thanks ...

C# library for complex queries against in-memory strings

I am looking for something that will take a complex search string and allow me to test it against some text to determine whether the text meets the search criteria. I would like to support query syntax similar to google/twitter (i.e. support for: and, or, not, exact string, wildcards, etc) and would also like it to handle plurals of wor...

Creating an efficient search capability using SQL Server (and/or coldfusion)

I am trying to visualize how to create a search for an application that we are building. I would like a suggestion on how to approach 'searching' through large sets of data. For instance, this particular search would be on a 750k record minimum table, of product sku's, sizing, material type, create date, etc; Is anyone aware of a 'plu...

Have you also become memory-lazy as a programmer? How do you overcome it?

In the last few years I've become very bad at memorizing API functions, how to use them, etc b/c I can get a reminder very easily using search engines (or StackOverflow), and do copy / paste / modify. I'm starting to feel like I'm relying too much on it.. sometimes to the point of getting stuck if I don't have access to the Internet :-) ...

google opensearch plugin ajax drop down

Hi, I am making an opensearch plugin to be used as a search engine provider in the browser. http://library.curtin.edu.au/services/toolbar/#searchPlugin As there is no way to specify any ajax call in the xml file, How do I make a drop down box populated with search suggestions? Many thanks ...

Enable webpage for IE Search Provider

When we visit Stack Overflow, the IE Instant Search Dropdown button is turning orange indicating that SO can be added as a search provider. What code should I put inside my web page for IE to detect that it's a compatible search web page? Thank you! ...

How to Have Search Engines Index Database-Driven Content?

How can I make it so that content from a database is available to search engines, like google, for indexing? Example: Table in mysql has a field named 'Headline' which equals 'BMW M3 2005'. My site name is 'MySite' User enters 'BMW M3 2005 MySite' in google and the record will show up with results? ...

configuring nutch regex-normalize.xml

I am using the Java-based Nutch web-search software. In order to prevent duplicate (url) results from being returned in my search query results, I am trying to remove (a.k.a. normalize) the expressions of 'jsessionid' from the urls being indexed when running the Nutch crawler to index my intranet. However my modifications to $NUTCH_HOME/...

How to search categorywise in the web? are there any categorysearch search engines

Example: I want to search results only from the research papers or I want to search results only from opensource tools/packages/codes Kindly help me ...

Is this the right way to make my website google-friendly ?

I have created several Q about correctly mapping a website with a database so that google can index it properly. However, need more info. My website is a classifieds website (PHP). Users can search ads on my site. Searching for 'BMW' will bring up only the titles of all 'bmw' ads and display them as a search result. (like google kindof)...

Optimizing an Ajax based website for Google Search

Hi all, I would really like to hear your opinions about search engine optimizations for an Ajax based website. The study case is the following: http://projects.trapexit.org/ What are your SEO hints for such an application? Many thanks. ...

To Create a Search, with values from multiple selection element?

I am working in PHP(with Symfony Framework) and i want to create a search based on multiple values selected from multiple selection element, i.e there will be multiple selection dropdown elements for like countries, cities, age etc.. and the values from them will query a data table and give the desired search output. (all values are not ...

how to get search engines to understand a DB driven asp.net site

All, This would seem like a fairly basic asp.net question - but in all my years of coding, I've never really thought about it. Say you have a asp.net 2.0 site with only a masterpage and a default.aspx and its a blog that saves all the data into the database. Links on the side are generated automatically. So ... the URL is always just...