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How to search for information related to Go programming language?
If there's something that would kill Go language, then it's name.
I find it very hard to find anything in web related just by using "Go" in the query. The word is on of the most frequent in English. ...
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Good library for search text tokenization
Looking to tokenize some text in the same or similar way in which a search engine would do it.
The reason we are doing this is so that we can run some statistical analysis on the tokens. The language ...
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Looking for good books about the theory behind search engines
I am working on a project that requires that I understand different techniques used by search engines for the web.
I have a strong scientific and development background, so I am not afraid of highly ...
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Best algorithm/practice when creating a search mechanism for your database?
I have been designing a database where it is very important to provide users with a good search mechanism. So I was wondering what some of the best practices are for using keywords to search over ...
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Data indexing frameworks fit for large E-Commerce applications
we wrote and still maintain a large E-Commerce application. Our feature list resembles what you would expect from most shops. We'd like to improve some of our features, and now the search/suggestion ...
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If I wanted to build a search engine, how would I start?
Can somebody point me into the right direction? I really don't have experience writing code but I'm a fast learner. I'm not trying to say it will be easy but I hope somebody can help me...
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Search multiple tables
I have developed a web application that is used mainly for archiving all sorts of textual material (documents, references to articles, books, magazines etc.). There can be any given number of archive ...
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Are there more efficient ways to search for help/documentation than Google/SO/…?
Google sometimes come up with irrelevant links, not everything is available on SO, there are cases where the local documentation is also annoying to look through... Are there other efficient ways you ...
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Is there a useful correlation between choice of web-browser/search engine and good quality programmers? [closed]
After a round of interviews earlier this year, which included some practical questions with access to a computer, I noticed that, at least for the applicants we were seeing, there was a high inverse ...
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Reverse engineering airline reservations systems
I saw an interesting conversation on here about airline reservation systems and the services that connect them (like Sabre).
This is an almost identical analog to a problem I've been trying to figure ...
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can a regex search engine for the web be done and if so, how?
I think it would be a great idea if we had a regular expression search engine, but can it be done? It seems impossible since there's no feasible way of indexing such a huge amount of data properly and ...
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Is dynamic HTML layout good from an SEO perspective?
Just wondering whether dynamically built HTML layout is fine from SEO perspectives? So let's assume e-commerce engine and its most popular page - products catalog. So 90% of the page is built using ...
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Looking for searchable code archives
As part of research for a user group presentation I'm looking for usage examples of certain code constructs.
I'm looking for online source code repository collections that allow me to search inside ...
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Does heavy JavaScript use adversely impact Googleability?
I've been developing the client-side for my web-app in JavaScript.
The JavaScript can communicate with my server over REST (HTTP)[JSON, XML, CSV] or RPC (XML, JSON).
I'm writing writing this ...
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Client-Side V.S. Server-Side Searching?
I am currently helping to design a web site and application in HTML. We would like the user to be able to search the site/app for desired content via a search bar. We would also like to include an ...
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NLP - Queries using semantic wildcards in full text searching, maybe with Lucene?
Let's say I have a big corpus (for example in english or an arbitrary language), and I want to perform some semantic search on it. For example I have the query:
"Be careful: [art] armada of [sg] is ...
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Conventions for search result scoring [closed]
I assume this type of question is more on-topic here than on regular SO.
I have been working on a search feature for my team's web application and have had a lot of success building a multithreaded, ...
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Is having a single `IndexWriter` instance in Lucene a good idea?
I am trying to understand how Lucene should be used.
From what I have read, creating an IndexReader is costly, so using a Search Manager shoulg be the right choice. However, a SearchManager should be ...
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Doubt regarding search engine/plugin(One present on the website itself)
I am new to web development and trying to study various types of websites as case study. Right now my focus is on how search engines works for an eCommerce website.
I know basic functioning for a ...
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How does Google crawl frequently updated webpages?
I'm trying to build a very small, niche search engine, using Nutch to crawl specific sites. Some of the sites are news/blog sites. If I crawl, say, techcrunch.com, and store and index their frontpage, ...
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Database of words and related words for search engine
I need to be able to search for a word in the English language and have a list of related words be displayed. Let's say I have a list of 100 words that the user should be able to search through. For ...
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Need Advice on PHP Search Functionality
I'm coding a Linux/PHP site for an organization. The site has two views, activated by a login $_SESSION variable indicating whether one is logged in as a member or not. I need to provide search ...
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What exactly is a Search Engine Indexer. Where to start building one?
For one of the projects at uni we were given the task to create a custom, niche search engine. My colleges and I split the tasks amongst each other so that we can tackle the overall project more ...
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Developing a search algorithm
I want to create a basic search engine, and I want you to give me some ideas how to filter out the best results for my visitors.
I have three fields regarding a product the user can search in:
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Which is the best method for storing data for a Language Dictionary?
I have been working on making a completely offline dictionary using the Wiktionary XML dumps. The dumps themselves are about 10 MB, but when converted into a index using a search engine indexer (I use ...
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.Net search engine architecture and technology choice
I am in the process of designing a search engine for an asp.net site. The site currently uses Microsoft Indexing Server to index and search content which range from simple text files to MS documents ...
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How can I get my website's search results into Google's search results?
All I can find online is stuff about search result rankings, which I'm not concerned with at the moment. We're going to have a cloud-based online database and we want Google search results for ...
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An Extra-Intellectual search in a large text
Have you ever seen, met, or worked with a smart/intellectual search library/framework/algorithm during your career? I need a very nice mechanism to search among text, I don't need a "Personal ...
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Inverted indices with minimum frequency counts
I'm trying to find a tool (database system, library, etc.) which can help me with a variation of the inverted index/posting list intersection problem. The variation is that a record matches only if a ...
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Finding links among many written and spoken thoughts [closed]
I am using a digital voice recorder to record anything I see important, ranging from business to private, from rants to new business ideas.
Every finalized idea is one wma-file. I wrote a program to ...
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How to effectivelly search for reusable code? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there an alternative to Google Code Search?
Google code search has been shut down. How to effectivelly search for common functions and algorithms now?
