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How to architect an in-app search solution that accounts for access to data?
I have a lot of data that I would like to enable end-users to search on. I plan to use ElasticSearch (but am open to other technologies). This would also be an AWS native solution. For simplicity, let'...
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Equal transformations on both indexed content and query content before a search is attempted
In search engine indexing, a body of text is often processed before it is indexed. A common example is stemming, were words are reduced to their root form (plurals are dropped, tense is normalized). ...
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What is the better search system, user defined tags or pre defined attribute fields?
I'm developing a marketplace application that will eventually list a large number of different types of items. Currently our search system (powered by Algolia) is built on pre defined attribute ...
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Blog is a single webpage that gets data asyncronously, searchable by Search Engines?
I have created a blog for a friend. I have heavily designed it around jQuery's $.ajax() function and as a result it is only a single webpage asynchronously gets its data (title, article, relative ...
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Small Search Engine Algorithm for Document Word Search
I have to design and implement an algorithm for my university project that searches a given set of documents based on the keywords/query given. Assume that each document contain few sentences and ...
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Designing a simple web search engine: how to address the need to search for exact phrases?
I'm strongly considering a web search engine for my next pet project. All the basic principles are clear, but some details are not. Namely, I can't find a neat way to search by exact match, e. g. "The ...
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Site search SERP URLs don't use query parameter, instead use directory structure? What's up with that?
I work with a site that employs a site search feature for its users. Before working on this site, I'd come to expect GET-style results with a parameter like "/search?q=entrepreneur" or POST-style ...
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Listing search/query results from 30+ web services efficiently and orderly
We have a system that currently has approx 25 customers (will never expand from this) that each have a public facing web service which allows each other to query each others internal application ...
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