i want to know how a internet search engine works,what type of code will it contain?

Question

i want to develop my own search engine.what are the things we should learn(books,reference,websites e.t.c). please answer as early as possible

Answer 1

http://www.searchengines.com/searchBasics1.html

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2168031

http://www.magportal.com/help/user/search.html

http://info.com/about

http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

http://websearch.about.com/od/enginesanddirectories/a/searchengine.htm

Answer 2

hi

How search engines work

A search engine operates, in the following order

1. Web crawling
2. Indexing
3. Searching

Web search engines work by storing information about a large number of web pages, which they retrieve from the WWW itself. These pages are retrieved by a Web crawler (sometimes also known as a spider) — an automated Web browser which follows every link it sees. Exclusions can be made by the use of robots.txt. The contents of each page are then analyzed to determine how it should be indexed (for example, words are extracted from the titles, headings, or special fields called meta tags). Data about web pages are stored in an index database for use in later queries. Some search engines, such as Google, store all or part of the source page (referred to as a cache) as well as information about the web pages, whereas others, such as AltaVista, store every word of every page they find. This cached page always holds the actual search text since it is the one that was actually indexed, so it can be very useful when the content of the current page has been updated and the search terms are no longer in it. This problem might be considered to be a mild form of linkrot, and Google's handling of it increases usability by satisfying user expectations that the search terms will be on the returned webpage. This satisfies the principle of least astonishment since the user normally expects the search terms to be on the returned pages. Increased search relevance makes these cached pages very useful, even beyond the fact that they may contain data that may no longer be available elsewhere.

When a user comes to the search engine and makes a query, typically by giving key words, the engine looks up the index and provides a listing of best-matching web pages according to its criteria, usually with a short summary containing the document's title and sometimes parts of the text. Most search engines support the use of the boolean terms AND, OR and NOT to further specify the search query. An advanced feature is proximity search, which allows users to define the distance between keywords.

The usefulness of a search engine depends on the relevance of the result set it gives back. While there may be millions of webpages that include a particular word or phrase, some pages may be more relevant, popular, or authoritative than others. Most search engines employ methods to rank the results to provide the "best" results first. How a search engine decides which pages are the best matches, and what order the results should be shown in, varies widely from one engine to another. The methods also change over time as Internet usage changes and new techniques evolve.

Most Web search engines are commercial ventures supported by advertising revenue and, as a result, some employ the controversial practice of allowing advertisers to pay money to have their listings ranked higher in search results. Those search engines which do not accept money for their search engine results make money by running search related ads alongside the regular search engine results. The search engines make money everytime someone clicks on one of these ads.

The vast majority of search engines are run by private companies using proprietary algorithms and closed databases, though some are open source.

list of open source search engines

http://www.dataparksearch.org/
http://www.egothor.org/
http://gonzui.sourceforge.net/
http://www.htdig.org/
http://lucene.apache.org/
http://www.namazu.org/index.html.en
http://www.mnogosearch.org/

any more info just ask

enjoy

Answer 3

Well, This all depends on what language you would like to do this in, I would recommend php with a mysql backend.. Thats my preference, plus they are both open source (free)..

If you were to do something like this (which is quite complicated) I would recommend looking at some other examples.. A decent working script is this one
http://www.greywyvern.com/orca
Its called Orca Search, You can get an idea of how to code off of this possibly. If you have not done much programming it will probably be over your head.. But you can learn about php also at php.net

Answer 4

a search engine gives you refferences to a topic you've given them. like when you type 'harry potter',the search engine will give you random sources of info about that topic,but if you type more specific topics like 'harry potter photos',it'll filter the sources to the ones that has the topic you've given..you need websites i guess, for the sources... uhmmm.i dont know how you'll do it but, good luck