Anyone know how I could make a program that would make a search engine? I think coldfusion does, but don't you need to buy the software for that? Is there a tutorial out there for doing this?
A list apart has an article on it. (clicky), it's not easy though. I'd go for the much much easier idea:
Code:
<!--note, this is guessed without reference, probaly contains one or more mistake -->
<form method="post" action="http://google.com/search">
<input id="q" type="text" />
</form>
Last edited by the tree; 01-17-2005 at 12:56 PM.
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well, u surely have to go for a server-side language, but not necessarly coldfusion, particularly if u dont have it yet.
you could go for php, perl, asp, aspnet, etc...
but you will need serious bases in order to code such a program
A site search != a search engine. If you want to run a real search engine that indexes plenty of sites you are going to need a dedicated box (depending on size you will need more) and your own line.
A site search is a simple matter of either designing your own database sensibly in the first place and/or just asking google to do it for you. If you mean actually starting your own search service though, you're talking about a pretty serious undertaking there. To provide the level of service that people would expect you would need a legion of machines and servers and a pipe so wide it looks like it's been fed on a life long diet of extra fat lard. You're talking very serious money.
Well not really if it is a small search engine, google started out of a garrage on a t1 (IIRC). But if your engine is any good and gets any kind of traffic you will need plenty of boxes (maybe blade servers or something) to do the searching and you will need a huge line, like Herer said. Google's data center is amazing, they have aisles of rack servers.
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