[Tutor] writing a search engine

[tpc@csua.berkeley.edu]

this site hosts a (no longer maintained) quick and dirty search engine:

http://www.melbpc.org.au/pcupdate/2012/2012article10.htm

it's ok for getting a working example up, although it only indexes from
the virtual index apache creates or an index.html file in a given
directory.  Also, its stop words list doesn't seem to work at all, and it
doesn't do phrase searching or highlighted terms in results.  It also is
not a Google type of index, which ranks results by how many links point
to the page as well as keyword matching.

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Kyle Babich wrote:

> Any suggestions on where to start?  I plan on writing one for a small
> site of mine.  It will basically be "google-style"- simple and
> functional.  The item being searched will be text files, where users can
> search based on title, contents, or both.  I was reading through some
> books but I'm stumped on where to begin.  I've never tried writing
> something even similar to a search engine and I guess I'm little
> confused/overwhelmed/bewildered.  :)  You guys always come to the rescue
> for me, so how about one more time?
> --
> Kyle
>
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