Hmm... That's not an easy job...because I imagine that in some situations, you would want your search engine to find synonyms. For example, let's say I am searching for a "4TB hdd." It should understand the word "hdd" and automatically look for the words "hard drive" and "hard disk" and "ssd" as well. BUT if I were to search for the words "2007 Dodge Caravan rear brake pads" then it would be really annoying if it also showed me Ford brake pads just because they are both cars.

One time I wrote a stock search engine in JavaScript. But it's very-very simple. It wants you to type in a name or part of the name of a company. Then it lists all the companies that have that word in their name. So, for example, you enter the word "nano" and it will display every company whose name contains the word "nano." It loads all the company names into memory first, which takes a few seconds. But once the page loads, then the search results appear at lightning speed. http://wzsn.net/stocksearch.html

In reply to Re: Search Engine Suggestions by harangzsolt33
in thread Search Engine Suggestions by Anonymous Monk

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.