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How Hard Is It To Write Your Own Search Engine?

Posted by timothy on from the can-barely-search-my-car dept.

kha0z writes "Anna Patterson, from Stanford University, overviews the difficulties that have to be overcome when attempting to develop and/or implement a search engine solution in this article in the ACM Queue Magazine. The article covers many issues dealing from data sources, to indexing, to ranking. How does Google make it look so easy?"

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  1. How does Google make it look so easy? by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How does Google make it look so easy?

    Google has hundreds of millions of dollars. Google treats their 2000 (2500+?) employees pretty well, so those employees work hard and smart and put in 40-60 hour work weeks. Google started earlier then the other modern engines, and had some very good ideas.

    They focus on a small set of goals-- make it easy to search through a ton of information.

    Compare this to Yahoo and MSN, where search is really just one part of their business model (there is no Google Singles! or Google Games).

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  2. Have you Read ast's Computer Networks Book? by Phoe6 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Andrew.S.Tanenbuam's Book "Computer Networks" deals this topic in a very elementary and a very good way. Any person,who is wondered by the Search Engine,should read that book. In the Chaper dealing with Application Layer,ast describes the basic data structures which constitute a web-search engine. You could better look at the presentation here.

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  3. Re:Search engine != entire web by BigGerman · · Score: 1, Interesting

    exactly. A buddy of mine developed and now sells search appliance that can search network windows shares as well as web servers - EnterFind.
    it is not complicated at all.