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How can I manipulate MySQL fulltext search relevance to make one field more 'valuable' than another?

Suppose I have two columns, keywords and content. I have a fulltext index across both. I want a row with foo in the keywords to have more relevance than a row with foo in the content. What do I need to do to cause MySQL to weight the matches in keywords higher than those in content? I'm using the "match against" syntax. SOLUTION: Wa...

mysql keyword search

I have a table with names of movies, and I want to be able to search for a movie in that table. But I want to be able to search for part of the title, and still return a result. For example, if there is a record with the name "The quantum of solace", then I want to be able to do a search for "quantum solace", or even "007: quantum solace...

Control-r reverse-i-search in Cygwin bash: how do you "reset" the search?

Question: How do you tell ctrl-r reverse-i-search to "reset itself" and start searching from the bottom of your history every time? Background: When using reverse-i-search in bash, I always get stuck once it is finished searching up through the history and it cannot find any more matches. Sometimes I hit escape and re-invoke ctrl-R a se...

Any suggestions for making Silverlight content available to search engines?

Assuming the following: You have some content currently being displayed in an ASP.NET HTML table. You want to use Silverlight for a better user experience. It is important that the information be indexed in Google, et al. What do you do? I know that XAP (Silverlight executables) contain XAML which could theoretically be indexed. But ...

Indexing multi-lingual content with Lucene.net

I use Lucene.net for indexing content & documents etc.. on websites. The index is very simple and has this format: LuceneId - unique id for Lucene (TypeId + ItemId) TypeId - the type of text (eg. page content, product, public doc etc..) ItemId - the web page id, document id etc.. Text - the text indexed Title - web page titl...

Visual Studio Search Issue.

I have a problem in VS2005. When I try to search files with the regular expressions option I just get an error message stating Unknown argument for ':' operator. Complete Regular Expression required in search string. The pattern that i'm trying to use is valid, and works in other text editors it is: <asp:textbox.+?(type="text"|size...

Search Words in pdf files

Is it possible to search "words" in pdf files with delphi? I have code with which I can search in many others files like (exe, dll, txt) but it doesn't work with pdf files. ...

Changing the size of the UISearchBar TextField ?

I have a UITableView with an Index on the side; I want to add a UISearchBar to it, but the index overlaps with the "x" to clear the search. I've noticed in the Contacts application, the textfield within the UISearchBar is resized to accommodate this, but I can't work out how to do this in my own app. I have tried the following in my v...

Conditional bash search?

How can I make such a conditional search in Bash like in Google "python" imag The word python must be in the search, while the word imag aims to match at least image and imaging. I want to search a python module for images, perhaps in apt-get. ...

Why does full text searching for string 'FDR' yields no results in MySQL?

I am trying to perform a search for users based on a full-text search. SELECT * FROM users WHERE MATCH ( name ) AGAINST ( 'FDR' IN BOOLEAN MODE ); However the query yields no results. I can replace the search value with other strings and yield results. I have even tried using a null stop word list with no success. The problem seems ...

Most efficient way to see if an ArrayList contains an object in Java

I have an ArrayList of objects in Java. The objects have four fields, two of which I'd use to consider the object equal to another. I'm looking for the most efficient way, given those two fields, to see if the array contains that object. The wrench is that these classes are generated based on XSD objects, so I can't modify the classes...

How to prevent robots.txt passing from staging env to production?

I had happen in the past that one of our IT Specialist will move the robots.txt from staging from production accidentally. Blocking google and others from indexing our customers' site in production. Is there a good way of managing this situation? Thanks in advance. ...

LINQ to Entities Searching text properties for multiple keywords

Hi guys, For a website I'm doing we're using LINQ to Entities. I have been charged with adding search functionality to the site. I'm trying to figure out the most elegant way to search for multiple keywords (user entered) on a single field in the database. Allow me to give an example. Table columns: Name, Description Example row: ...

Search for all occurrences of a string in a mysql database.

I'm trying to figure out how to locate all occurrences of a url in a database. I want to search all tables and all fields. But I have no idea where to start or if it's even possible. ...

How to implement search features in ASP.NET MVC applications

I can imagine many ways of implemeting search features in an ASP.NET MVC application but since I can't find much documentation I was wondering if you have any common pattern, technology or common approach to implement search features in a ASP.NET MVC application (similar to stackoverflow). Some technologies that I have in mind are: SQL...

Best way to search data in xml files?

In our new project we have to provide a search functionality to retrieve data from hundreds of xml files. I have a brief of our current plan below, I would like to know your suggestions/improvements on this. These xml files contain personal information, and the search is based on 10 elements in it for example last name, first name, emai...

Full Text Search in Linq

There's no full text search built into Linq and there don't seem to be many posts on the subject so I had a play around and came up with this method for my utlity class: public static IEnumerable<TSource> GenericFullTextSearch<TSource>(string text, MyDataContext context) { //Find LINQ Table attribute object[] info = typeof(TSour...

How to programatically search a PDF document in c#

I have a need to search a pdf file to see if a certin string is present. The string in question is definately encoded as text (ie. it is not an image or anything). I have tried just searching the file as though it was plain text, but this does not work. Is it possible to do this? Are there any librarys out there for .net2.0 that will ex...

Best algorithm for inserting text before and after a token in C#?

I'm working on a search function for an MVC C# app that will place a (possibly large) chunk of text through a filter, and given the search query, will place an html <span> with a highlighted style before and after each search term. I've got a simple algorithm working, but I've got a feeling it will be slow, probably because of the amoun...

Firefox bar to quickly find API docs

This question is related to this one http://stackoverflow.com/questions/573072/tricks-to-google-for-desired-page-quickly Firefox can do some magic and bring exactly the required pages. E.g. java 6 SimpleDateFormat ruby doc rexml But some times it fails giving a usual google results: ruby rexml And some times I whould like it...