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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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Making a div non-indexable?

I have a div with some sentences that I don't want to be indexed by search engines. Is it possible to somehow hide this from Google in a way? I thought about using frames, and having the site within the frame being blocked by robots.txt, but I've…
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the Google SEO considerations over using .htaccess rule to ignore top level directory

I am using the Concrete 5 CMS to build a website and i'd like to push it live. I have the code in a directory called /concrete5.5.2.1 and rather than updating the references in the database and moving the code on the filesystem, i'm considering…
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How does Google track dynamic pages?

I heard that Google can track all the static pages in a website and all the text, images, and video in those pages, but how can it track the dynamic pages? For example, if I search for "Facebook Sam Jerusalem" on Google, it will show search results…
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Sphider for vertical search angine

I'm investigating different tools for building a vertical search engine. I've come across http://www.sphider.eu/ and I think it works fine. However, I'm not sure how many pages it can index. There seems to be no information about this in the…
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Doesn't Yandex care about canonical link tags?

In email newsletters and in Twitter I Share my homepage link like this: http://www.example.com/?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=june To not to create duplicate content I put "link canonical" tag into my webpages. Google fixes it well. Google sends the…
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conceptual search engine and dictionary of concepts

I'm asking about conceptual search (or concept-based search) which doesn't find documents based on specific word or phrase, but it returns relevant documents which are conceptually related regardless of shared terms or even a common…
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Ordering algorithm which returns search items in Amazon

I was wondering how an algorithm might work when you input the search for an item in Amazon. I'm guessing that the more popular seller might have a higher rank, and maybe the more the number of products sold, the higher the rank. But is that it?…
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Lucene/Solr - how to return both relevant documents and authors based on query presence in documents?

We have successfully implemented Apache Solr to return the x most relevant dialogs as search results in our dialoging system. Every dialog (node.nid) consists of comments (comment.cid), and each dialog/comment is authored by a user (node.uid /…
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Solr schema and workflow

I am thinking of implementing Solr for our ecommerce project. What I am trying to achieve is to allow users to search within product title and display the result page showing the product title, product price, availability and short description. Now…
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Open source or Paid Search Engine API

I have a MySQL database with two main tables that contain the data I need to index. I am looking for a search engine API that can index and return appropriate search results - as close as possible to Google quality -. The application uses the…
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search for winforms datagridview

I'm looking to implement a search box for a datagridview control similar to let's say firefox Control-F which would bring up a search box and on finding a match the row would be highligted etc. Is there any similar functionality perhaps using…
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For Google crawling purposes: Single PHP pull-page, or individual pages for each different item?

I am creating a site and want to have individual pages for each row in a database table. The information on each page is fairly useful and comprehensive, and it would be really nice if Google could index them. My initial thought was to just create a…
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How do search engines crawl Javascript?

If I add random keywords alt attrb to the images using jQuery document.ready (thinking that the page is already loaded), how does it affect search engines? Will the search engines get the alt attrb that I added with any JavaScript at all? If not how…
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removed url from Google webmaster tool, now Google don't show my website in search

I developed the site, and I removed the URL from Google webmaster tool which was like "http://example.com\". I did this because Google show this in search with under construction Title, which was my previous page. When i completed the website, i…
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Solr/Lucene fuzzy search too slow

I am trying to implement location(cities, regions, countries, objects) fuzzy search using Solr server. Currently, my index contains about 0.8-1.0 M items. It works really well using fuzzy search (~0.7) but is too slow for me (0.2-0.6 sec very…
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