Hello Monks.

I've had this crazy idea in my head for a while - to make my own search engine. And when I say SE - I mean real thing : spider, indexer ...etc.

Naturally I want to do it in Perl and wonder if it's suitable for such a thing (I spotted some modules like LWP::RobotUA that could be handy). I guess that only time critical part of the system would be querying the DB for search results - am I right?

So I guess that it's mostly up to DB - and while I'm there what DB to use? Some guy told me that best thing would be to use hash databases of some sort - with a revert index. But in that case I cant even imagine a how phrase search would be done ...

I tried to find general info on creating search engines - but most things I found are in the lines of how to create a search engine for your site using PHP. Does anyone know some source of info on it?

O and BTW - someone could ask why would I want to do such a thing. Well there is only one - recently launched - real search engine for sites in Serbian (I'm from Serbia), and I think it can be done much better. And beside that it's interesting - I could pass it as my Advanced School Dissertation as I don't have any other idea.

In reply to Writing a Search Engine in Perl? by techcode

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