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MOSS 2007 Crawl

I'm trying to get crawl to work on two separate farms I have but can't get it to work on either one. They both have two WFE's with an additional WFE configured as an Index server. There is one more server dedicated for Query and two clustered SQL 2005 back end servers for the database. I have unsuccessfully tried at least 50 different...

Is there a way to prevent google search terms from matching urls?

At the moment, I am doing a number of searches which include "html" in them, for example "html rearrange". Unfortunately, I get a lot of hits from sites that include "rearrange" on a .html page but have no mention of html in the page itself. Is there a way to prevent search terms from matching urls? ...

How to search for "R" materials?

"The Google" is very helpful... unless your language is called "R," in which case it spits out tons of irrelevant stuff. Anyone have any search engine tricks for "R"? There are some specialized websites, like those below, but how can you tell Google you mean "R" the language? If I'm searching for something specific, I'll use an R-specif...

What's the best tool to find and replace regular expressions over multiple files?

Preferably free tools if possible. Also, the option of searching for multiple regular expressions and each replacing with different strings would be a bonus. ...

Doing the best internet searches: Tips and Tricks wanted.

Someone asked a question, what was the most important bookmark for a Developer, and it got me thinking. I personally answered Google of course. I have felt for the longest time that Google is the most indispensible tool for the developer as you can literally find anything you need by using well formed searches. Which brings me to my ques...

Simple VB.NET using Google Search API?

Can anyone point me to a good, simple, example of a Google API (AJAX Search API I suppose?) that can be implemented in VB.net (2008)? I have tried to sign up for a Google API key but it wants a URL from which the search will be executed from. I dont have a URL for this example. I tried http://localhost but then was told by a colleagu...

Filtering duplicate newsgroup posts from Google

I have the constant need to Google error messages to try to find out what they mean and what solutions people might have. Usually those error messages were posted in some newsgroup. Unfortunately, Google's results (even when it says "similar results removed") usually consist of many copies of the exact same message (usually with some non...

Building a web search engine

I've always been interested in developing a web search engine. What's a good place to start? I've heard of Lucene, but I'm not a big Java guy. Any other good resources or open source projects? I understand it's a huge under-taking, but that's part of the appeal. I'm not looking to create the next Google, just something I can use to ...

Fast search in java swing applications?

I'm wandering myself what component is the best for displaying fast search results in swing. I want to create something like this, make a text field where user can enter some text, during his entering I'll improve in back end fast search on database, and I want to show data bellow the text box, and he will be able to browse the results a...

Best text search engine for integrating with custom web app?

We have a web app that allows users to upload documents, create their own documents, and so on. Uploaded files are stored on Amazon S3, created information is stored in a MySQL database. What I'm looking for is some sort of search engine, where I feed it all of our text documents, each with a unique ID, and it builds an index or whatever...

In .Net, what is the fastest way to recursively find all files from a root directory?

I want to search a directory for all files that match a certain pattern. Surprisingly, I have not had to do this since vb6 (Dir)... I'm sure things have changed since then! -Thanks ...

What is the best search approach using Lucene?

I'm using lucene in my project. Here is my question: should I use lucene to replace the whole search module which has been implemented with sql using a large number of like statement and accurate search by id or sth, or should I just use lucene in fuzzy search(i mean full text search)? ...

How can I find the first occurrence of a pattern in a string from some starting position?

I have a string of arbitrary length, and starting at position p0, I need to find the first occurrence of one of three 3-letter patterns. Assume the string contain only letters. I need to find the count of triplets starting at position p0 and jumping forward in triplets until the first occurrence of either 'aaa' or 'bbb' or 'ccc'. Is th...

How can I enumerate all *.exes and the details about each?

Something like: //Get all search data $search = new search('C:\', '*.exe'); while($item = $search->next()) { $details = $item->getDetails(); append_details('C:\files.txt', implode_details($details)); } But in NSIS (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/) ...

Which search technology to use with ASP.NET?

What's your preferred method of providing a search facility on a website? Currently I prefer to use Lucene.net over Indexing Service / SQL Server full-text search (as there's nothing to set up server-side), but what other ways are being used out there? ...

Ways to do "related searches" functionality

I've seen a few sites that list related searches when you perform a search, namely they suggest other search queries you may be interested in. I'm wondering the best way to model this in a medium-sized site (not enough traffic to rely on visitor stats to infer relationships). My initial thought is to store the top 10 results for each un...

Advanced searching in Vim

Hey Folks, Is there a way to search for multiple strings simultaneously in Vim? I recall reading somewhere that it was possible but somehow forgot the technique. So for example, I have a text file and I want to search for "foo" and "bar" simultaneously (not necessarily as a single string, can be in different lines altogether). How do ...

Eclipse Search Menus disabled randomly

I use Eclipse 3.3 in my daily work, and have also used Eclipse 3.2 extensively as well. In both versions, sometimes the Search options (Java Search, File Search, etc) in the menu get disabled, seemingly at random times. However, with CTRL + H, I am able to access the search functionality. Does anyone know why this happens? Has it bee...

How select the rest of the word in incremental search in Intellij IDEA?

When in incremental search mode in Intellij IDEA, is there a way to select the rest of the word. For example, suppose I want to find the word “handleReservationGranted”. I type Ctrl-f to enter incremental search mode, and start typing the letters “han”. Now suppose I have found the beginning of “handleReservationGranted”. In my search bo...

How to search through archived files with Perl

What is your preferred method for reading through the contents of zipped directories with Perl ? ...