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A search engine is program that searches documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found.

A search engine is a program that searches documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found.

Although search engine is really a general class of programs, the term is often used to specifically describe systems like Google, Yahoo!, Yandex and Excite that enable users to search for documents on the World Wide Web and USENET newsgroups.

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Method/Tool for Extracting Keywords from List of Sentences

I have a large list of sentences and would like to tag each of them with their own unique keywords, to help me identify which sentences are similar for grouping purposes. As an example: The dog ran fast. - tagged as: dog The cat is sleeping -…
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Titanium - Developing a Dictionary

i'm using Titanium to develop a dictionary. I have a Tableview and the values of the rows are loaded from SQLite local database. I used the "SearchBar" component of Titanium and linked it to the tableview using the native property in Titanium. But…
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How does Quora find a correct resource to request of the url slug?

How does Quora find a correct resource to request of the url slug ( Question, User, or Topic )? For example: http://www.quora.com/How-does-Quora-rewrite-their-urls As you can see, the URL for a question does not have a controller's name. It is…
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Creating a fingerprint database

I was wondering how to create a fingerprint database. If fingerprints are stored as images, how do you compare images in a database, or create an image search engine like TinEye? I know this is a big subject, but I'm just looking for a starting…
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Is it advantageous to rank documents based on their relevance to a base document

I am looking at ranking document based on their relevance to a reference document or a base document instead of the query . Would it be advantageous to use this approach or should i stick to using a query ?
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how to get feed links i.e. .rss .xml etc from google feed API

I want to use the Google feed API to search for news feeds however i don't have any previous experience of using an API so i was thinking somebody can help out about building an application where users can enter their query and get the corresponding…
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besides google and bing, what other search engine has an python api?

Google and Bing are both free, for Google I use urllib and json to get the results. For Bing i use pyBing. Yahoo requires me to pay per 1000 queries, which I don't want to do for a homework assignment. Is there any other SEs that has a python api?…
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Search files from various sites and list them

I want to create a file search engine for educational purposes. But i dont know how. Can you point me in the right direction please? Im aware of screen scrapping and apis. I use asp.net & c# for programming. As an example, how does this search…
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mysql search for 's' ending should return the same without 's' ending

I want to search using MATCH in mysql. I have 1 table contain "name" and "category" fields. the "category" field contain book,books,books. what i want is, when i search "book" or "books" in category field, it should give me 3 row. can anyone help…
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Make a full complex search in php and mysql

I am trying to make a full complex search using php and mysql.I want to use this search system for search a city in database. For example if anyone want to search "Houston" and he entered wrong spelling, like "Hoston" instead of "Houston", the city…
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variable values conflicts with multiple user

Iam new to PHP, trying to do personalized search engine it works fine with the single user... but simultaneously 2 user uses.. the values in the Variable showing wrong values. Eg: if user1 search "Apple" then $qry="Apple", same time user2 search…
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How to format a website to display in columns in search engines and seo?

http://bit.ly/wYoluw [Example: Stack Overflow in Search Engine] Does Google and other search engines do this automatically or is there a specific way to do this? If there is a way to force a site to display in this column formatting, does it change…
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Does Google search results offset that of the Bing?

In a WPF application, I need to fetch results from various search engines and count the recurring and non-recurring words from the context (description & keywords) of the top 200 results. This task is to examine the understanding and the 'factor of…
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PHP search engine with filters

i'm trying to build a search site where u can be able to refine your search but im having trouble passing the new $get value... i'll link the examples of what i got and what i awant to achieve, if any help i apreciate. What i want to…
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Execute Multiple Searches from one Search Bar

Is it possible to get a single search bar to execute multiple values at once? For instance, let's say I have set my value="search" upon a user hitting submit, but instead of just fulfilling that one action, I would like it to fulfill multiple…
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