I have a webapp development problem that I've developed one solution for, but am trying to find other ideas that might get around some performance issues I'm seeing. problem statement: a user enters several keywords/tokens the application searches for matches to the tokens need one result for each token ie, if an entry has 3 tokens,...
Is there any tool which will allow me to perform a free text search over a system's code, but only over the code which was actually executed during a particular invocation? To give a bit of background, when learning my way around a new system, I frequently find myself wanting to discover where some particular value came from, but search...
I had the idea of a search engine that would index web items like other search engines do now but would only store the file's title, url and a hash of the contents. This way it would be easy to find items on the web if you already had them and didn't know where they came from or wanted to know all the places that something appeared. Mo...
What are the alternative's to using the iThenticate service for content comparison? ...
Say I have data structures stored as XML (XML data type) within Sql Server. A user wishes to pull out a record if, within the data, a certain string is found. What are my options for implementing this, and which is the best way to do it? Note that each record can have different XML data structures ...
I'm building a Django project that needs search functionality, and until there's a django.contrib.search, I have to choose a search app. So, which is the best? By "best" I mean... easy to install / set up has a Django- or at least Python-friendly API can perform reasonably complex searches Here are some apps I've heard of, please sug...
Say I have two tables: users and groups, each of which has a name. I wish to provide a 'simple search', in which the user enters text and results contain both users and groups whose names contain the text. The results must distinguish between the two types. ...
I implemented a Lucene search solution awhile back, and it got me interested in compressed file indexes that are searchable. At the time I could not find any good information on how exactly you would go about creating a custom search index, so I wonder if anyone can point me in the right direction? My primary interest is in file formatti...
I'm looking to find alternatives to Solr from the Apache Software Foundation. For those that don't know, Solr is an enterprise search server. A client application uses a web-services like interface to submit documents for indexing and also to perform search queries. Solr has other features built in like caching and replication. I belie...
Plone has a beautiful search box with a "Google suggest" like functionality for its site. It even indexes uploaded documents like PDFs. Does anyone know of a module that can provide this kind of functionality in a Django site? ...
In OS X, in order to quickly get at menu items from the keyboard, I want to be able to type a key combination, have it run a script, and have the script focus the Search field in the Help menu. It should work just like the key combination for Spotlight, so if I run it again, it should dismiss the menu. I can run the script with Quicksi...
I'm wondering if there are any good .NET recommendation algorithms available in open source projects, whether attached to a search engine or not. By recommendation I mean something that accepts a full-text article and recommends other articles from its index based on keyword similarity. At the high end there are document classification...
There are several plugin options for building a search engine into your Ruby on Rails application. Which of these is the best? Thinking Sphinx UltraSphinx Sphincter acts_as_sphinx acts_as_ferret Ferret acts_as_xapian acts_as_solr Hyper Estraier ...
Google custom search code is provided as a form tag. However, Asp.net only allows a single form tag on a page. What is the best way to implement their code so you can include it on an aspx page (say as part of a Masterpage or navigation element). ...
I have a query: SELECT * FROM Items WHERE column LIKE '%foo%' OR column LIKE '%bar%' how do I order the results? lets say I have rows that match 'foo' and rows that match 'bar' but I also have a row with 'foobar' how do I order the returned rows so that the first results are the ones that matched more LIKEs? Thanks ...
I'm looking at using a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 wiki as a metadata repository. We basically want a community-driven dictionary and for various reasons we're using Sharepoint instead of say MediaWiki. What can I do to customize or completely replace searchresults.aspx? Features I'd add if I knew how: Automatically load the #1 ...
I like to run search engine on code, and if you aren't I recommend it (especially if you code in a team and you don't have all the lines of code in your head). When I vaguely remember some variable name or class name, but I can't remember where I saw it, I just run the search. Pre-indexed full-text search system is way faster than grepin...
Hi, I'm looking for an open source search indexing library. It will be used for embedded web application so it should have a small code size. Preferably, written in C, C++ or PHP and does not require any database to be installed for storing indexes. Indexes should be stored on a file instead (e.g., xml, txt). I tried to look on some fam...
I'm using a FullTextSqlQuery in SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) and need to order the results by two columns: SELECT WorkId FROM SCOPE() ORDER BY Author ASC, Rank DESC However it seems that only the first column from ORDER BY is taken into account when returning results. In this case the results are ordered correctly by Author, but not by Rank...
I search for "nurple" in a file. I found it, great. But now, every occurrence of "nurple" is rendered in sick black on yellow. Forever. Forever, that is, until I search for something I know won't be found, such as "asdhfalsdflajdflakjdf" simply so it clears the previous search highlighting. Can't I just hit a magic key to kill the h...