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    How do you create a search engine?

    Again, here are the two books you will absolutely need to read in order to implement something like this from scratch: Networking APIs IPC...
    Post by: aidantrent, Oct 14, 2007 in forum: All Other Search Engines
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    How do you create a search engine?

    First, C++ is a terrible language for this sort of task. A web crawler is essentially a text parser, and C/C++ are some of the worst languages...
    Post by: aidantrent, Oct 14, 2007 in forum: All Other Search Engines
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    How do you create a search engine?

    It depends on how you set things up. If you design something that can scale well, then the full-text indexer will be the big part, and it will...
    Post by: aidantrent, Jul 27, 2007 in forum: All Other Search Engines
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    Besides the Big three, What are noteworthy search enginges?

    Don't forget niche search engines! For instance, if you have a blog, make sure it's pinging Technorati and all of the other blog search services,...
    Post by: aidantrent, Jul 27, 2007 in forum: All Other Search Engines
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    How do you create a search engine?

    Absolutely agreed. I wrote EveKnows myself using a Perl front-end and web crawler, MySQL database, and custom full-text indexer in C. By...
    Post by: aidantrent, Jul 27, 2007 in forum: All Other Search Engines
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    Search Engine Script

    Actually, yes I have: http://eveknows.com :) (as the name implies, it's a porn search engine, so don't click if that's not your cup of tea...)...
    Post by: aidantrent, Jun 28, 2007 in forum: All Other Search Engines
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    Search Engine based on Firefox Plugin Foxmarks

    Bloody hell, that's a slick idea! Of course, if the idea takes off, they basically have an open API for spammers to influence their search...
    Post by: aidantrent, Jun 28, 2007 in forum: All Other Search Engines
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    EveKnows Porn Search Engine

    Just wanted to comment with a link: http://eveknows.com Let me know what you mates think :)
    Post by: aidantrent, Jun 28, 2007 in forum: All Other Search Engines
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    Who was the first search engine?

    Don't forget HotBot--I recall hearing someone say it was going to be bigger than AltaVista, but then Google came along...
    Post by: aidantrent, Jun 23, 2007 in forum: All Other Search Engines
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    How do you back up your larger websites?

    I have a cron job that tars up /var/www and the output of mysqldump once a week and scp's it to my home machine. Another script tars /etc/ and...
    Post by: aidantrent, Jun 23, 2007 in forum: Site & Server Administration
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    CHMOD Question

    If you can ssh to the box, you should be able to delete it from the command line. Something like 'rm /path/to/file' should do the trick.
    Post by: aidantrent, Jun 23, 2007 in forum: Site & Server Administration
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    Adult Host

    Webair is a pretty popular adult host for managed servers. If you are capable of running your own server, however, you can't beat ServerBeach's...
    Post by: aidantrent, Jun 23, 2007 in forum: Site & Server Administration
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    Looking for ideas on predicting server load

    As others have said, you can use the Apache benchmark tool (httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/ab.html) to get a rough idea of how many pages you...
    Post by: aidantrent, Jun 23, 2007 in forum: Site & Server Administration