Re: Search engine development

"Thomas Edison Jr." wrote: > > Wico, > > > What help do you want? > > What are you going to build an indexer or the front > > end or both? > > Well we're designing both, front end & an indexer. > First of all we want to know where to begin? What kind > of stuff do we actually require to make a search > engine? > > Let me give u a fair idea of what i have in mind. A > database with few coloumns like keywords, site > description etc. Then the search field picking up > stuff from the database as per the query entered by > the user. Something like yahoo - which i believe is > totally made in perl. Now hwo to go about this really. > > Thanx a lot for this. > > Regards, > T. Edison jr. > The very best place to start for this is http://www.webreference.com/perl/xhoo/php1/ Its called phphoo and it is a good tutorial on building just such an engine, athough it will take alot of alteration to get a finished working engine it definatly has the framework Also for those of you not familiar with recursive functions its a must read. VYDK