search engine

[placid]

George Sakkis wrote:
> vinodh kumar wrote:
> > hai all,
> >              i am student of computer science dept. i have planned to
> > design a search engine in python. i am seeking info about how to
> > proceed further.
> >       i need to know what r the modules that can be used.
>
> There is not a "search engine module" around AFAIK. You should do your
> homework first and learn about search engines in a language-independent
> way from some good textbook such as "Mining the Web"
> (http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~soumen/mining-the-web/), break the
> problem into subparts and decide which ones you will implement. By then
> you should have a much better idea of what modules to look for.
>

Anyway, if you are going to design a new search engine and implement it
then you will probably need to use modules only as a helper to your
algorithm.