Questions tagged [search-engine]

Search engines are programs that search documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents or websites where the keywords were present.

Search engines are programs that search documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents or websites where the keywords were present.

Examples:

  • google
  • yahoo
  • bing
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Apache Solr: What is a good strategy for creating a tag/attribute based search for an image

I recently read an article about YayMicro that descries how they used solr to search their photos. I would like doing something similar (but on a smaller scale). I have figured out how to have solr to search text files, but I would like to learn…
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Where to download .ADM or .ADMX file to setup default search providers within Windows 2008 R2 for Internet Explorer 8?

Where to download .ADM or .ADMX file to setup default search providers within Windows 2008 R2 for Internet Explorer 8?
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search engine (bing) lost my www

I just found that my site in the result of bing was broken, casue bing display wrong domain name: my site domain name: www.mysite.com; bing list my site domain name : mysite.com How can i ask bing to change it to the right one? Another search…
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Set a default search engine for the whole company via Active Directory with the option of switching (back) to a different one

Disclaimer: I am new in the field and my knowledge about AD is extremely small yet. So I was sent a package with Group Policy templates to implement in an Active Directory, so the default search engine of Internet Explorer and Chrome will be…
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301 redirects and SEO

I have a site which uses the following structure, domain.com/12/43/45/some-post/ When people link to my site some cms's remove the trailing slash and turn it into, domain.com/12/43/45/some-post both URL's refer to the same content, my question is is…
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sitemap for bing?

Google has the sitemap.xml and Yahoo the urllist.txt that you can place in the root of your website to facilitate the indexation process. Does Bing has something similar ?
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Requests masking server name / DAPPER-HOST-IP

For the last few days, I've been having a lot of requests to unexisting pages on my server. The worrying part about it is that, when I look at the 404 error log I've built for my site, these requests seem to mask my server name: when asking for…
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Installing Apache Lucene for LAMP server

I have Ubuntu running for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) server. To provide better search capability one of my friend recommended to install "Apache Lucene". While reading about it I came to know that "Apache Lucene" required tomcat and java…
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prevent search engines indexing depending on domain

We have a dedicated server with a hosting company with a couple of dozens of webs in it. It happens that the nameservers (EG: ns1.domain.com, ns2.domain.com) ip's are coincident with some client webs, let's say webclient1.com and webclient2.com…
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.htaccess url rewrite to stop bingbot immediately

I want to stop bingbot completely and immediately . I'd like to do this using mod_rewrite in .htaccess. I've got these rules ... Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^bingbot/.* [OR] RewriteCond…
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search options based on data

I write an example to be more practive. I need to know if it is possible to next search based on the data I have in my database, fulltextsearch engines in sqlserver-2008 or Apache Solr: Case 1: Data in the…
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Web log file analysis software to measure search crawlers

I need to analyze the search engine crawling going on in my site. Is there a good tool for this? I've tried AWStats and Sawmill. But both of those give me very limited insight into the crawling. I need to know information like how many…
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Can I use a Google Appliance/Mini to crawl and index sites I don't own?

Maybe this is a stupid question, but... I am working with this company and they said they needed to get "permission" to crawl other people's sites. They have a Google Search Appliance And some Google Minis and want to point them at other sites to…
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/manual/cache folder on my server?

On our site's server, once managed by someone who's no longer with us, there's a folder named "/manual/cache" which contains txt files named+like+this, mostly using pornographic-related keywords. The content is mainly spam-like gibberish. My…
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Retrieving the search keywords from a search result entry (Google)

Is it possible to go back to the actual google query string given one or more URL results? for example, if I do a search using the keyword "pippo" I get this first…
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