| Webmaster 2001-06-24, 5:08 pm |
| I just installed the new site indexing and search engine.
Written in C, it's over 10 times faster than PERL or PHP script. The index is stored in database.
There are many options to help narrow down the search. I especially like the "exact phrase" search. For example if you look for "cisco router", you have 4 choices of running the search: "All words" will return pages that contain both "Cisco" and "Router",
then there is "Any words" will return pages that contain words "Cisco" or "Router"
And the most powerful search - "Exact phraze" will return only those pages that contain two words together.
The last choice is boolean where you can use & - logical and, ~ - logical NO, and () to group words together.
There are other options - search in keywords, title, url or body.
I preffer searches in the body of the document as many pages contain keywords that are not releveant to the actual content.
I also combined ExamNotes.net and Cert21.com into one index, but it's possilbe to search each site separetely.
The site search does not include the forum database. The forum has its own good search engine. I have not yet decided, but I may also include the forum into the site index so that a single search could return results from site and forum.
Anyway, take a look at this page:
http://www.examnotes.net/cgi-bin/search.cgi |