Posts Tagged ‘Search Engines’
Aggregate your searches with OpenSearch
Posted in Technicalon Nov 10, 2006
The rise of RSS and Atom feeds brought increased usage of the word, aggregate, which meant to gather many articles together to one destination. This turns out to be a really great thing. No longer do I have to go from site to site to check on all my favorite news. I can use an aggregator, and bring all the news from all my favorite sites together to one point. Not only can I do this with news, but also blog posts, photos, audio clips, events, alerts, and the list goes on.
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- Tags: aggregation, blog, Google, opensearch, search, Search Engines
Another biggest month ever
Posted in Bloggingon Sep 26, 2006
Last month I announced that August 2006 was the biggest month ever for this website. August’s reign didn’t even last a month as September, with 4 days left in the month, just passed up August. Well over 1000 users came in so far this month through Google alone, which is a 30% increase over all of last month. The photos category was the most popular, while posts about search engines and Halloween dances were the most popular posts.
Thank you all very much for reading. I appreciate every visitor, including the rude ones, but not really the ones that spam.
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- Tags: dance, Search Engines
Introducing LDSsearch.com
Posted in Religionon May 19, 2006
Update:This search engine no longer exists as it wasn’t fulfilling its goals.
For work, I’ve been working on a new search engine called LDSsearch.com. It is finally to the point where I feel like I can start showing it off and get feedback on it.
This search engine only indexes Internet content which has been identified to be LDS-friendly material. The idea is to help members, and investigators to find accurate information about the mormon religion without having to sort through anti-mormon sites.
LDSsearch.com uses the open-source search engine, Nutch. Nutch made it faster and easier to set up a search engine. We’re using version 0.8-dev, which is in need of some very good documentation.
Please take a look at it, and tell me what you think by commenting on this post.
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- Tags: Religion, Search Engines
Search Engines
Posted in Technicalon Nov 20, 2004
I’ve been researching different search engines that can be used to index a limited set of websites. I’ve come up with these four as possible candidates:
ht://Dig does the job, but it has problems updating an index, and perhaps with database corruption. It will search pdf, word, and other documents if given proper parsers.
The Search Engine Project is a search engine that runs from php and indexes into MySQL (v4+).
SiteSearch uses Lucene (java based, from Apache Jakarta) as the indexer, has a php front end, and provides search and click statistics.
Spindle also uses Lucene. I don’t know much more than that.
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- Tags: Links, search, Search Engines
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