Any Suggestions
I am attempting to write a search engine for my website. But I was wondering if any of you knew of a "good" way to index the sites for searching. The one thing I don't want the search engine to do is eat up processor cycles. So I was wondering if anyone could point out a good way to index them. I was
thinking of adding them all to a txt file then searching the text file, but I don't think that would be the "best" way to accomplish my objective.
Thanx for your guys input. Don't know what I would do without the TWF.
VulKen
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[This message has been edited by VulKen (edited 17 June 2000).]
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Rob Pengelly posted this at 19:20 — 17th June 2000.
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If you have access to an SQL database, that would be your best bet, other than that you are stuck with a flat file database.
If you are using a flat-file database, I would suggest keeping each site's info on one line, and limiting each text file to a certain amount of lines(sites) (can't really say how much, but I would think no more than 1000 lines).
Storing like:
URL|Title|Description|Keywords(optional)
would be the easiest to parse.
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