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Stack for building a searchable image service [closed]
I've been building web services & sites with Django & PostgreSQL using pieces like Redis, Memcached, RabbitMQ, etc. for a few years now.
I'm about to build a new kind of service (for me), ...
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What is a good algorithm for priority allocation of work duties?
I am currently doing a project (in PHP) that has the following requirements:
There is a list of people, sorted in a certain priority. Work should be allocated to them by this priority. e.g. If the ...
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Auto-completion or Suggest
How does Google or amazon implement the auto-suggestion at their search box. I am looking for the most used algorithm with technology stack.
PS: I have searched over the net and found this and this ...
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What is “the right way” to do search on a website?
I'm talking the kind of search that auto-suggests your query as you type, the way Google does, the way Wikipedia does, the way Stack Exchange suggests other questions as you type the title, etc. And ...
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Address search from large text file
Basically I want to develop a Address lookup(part of my project) using C# (and I can use SQL if necessary). I have a very large text file which have all the UK address and postcodes. Addresses needs ...
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doing a full permutation search and replace on a string
I'm writing an app that does something like a custom number (license) plate generator tool where if I ask for the plate "robin" it will suggest I try:
r0bin
rob1n
r0b1n
Are there any published ...
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Good library for search text tokenization
Looking to tokenize some text in the same or similar way in which a search engine would do it.
The reason we are doing this is so that we can run some statistical analysis on the tokens. The language ...
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Verify uniqueness of new content
I'm working on a review site, where there is a minor issue with almost duplicate reviews across items. Just a few words are changed. It would be very nice to be able to uncover these duplicates before ...
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Is it possible (and practical) to search a string for arbitrary-length repeating patterns?
I've recently developed a huge interest in cryptography, and I'm exploring some of the weaknesses of ECB-mode block ciphers. A common attack scenario involves encrypted cookies, whose fields can be ...
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Data structure: sort and search effectively
I need to have a data structure with say 4 keys . I can sort on any of these keys. What data structure can I opt for? Sorting time should be very little.
I thought of a tree, but it will be only help ...
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Github for Windows search [closed]
Is there any way to search through github projects in Windows? The Windows application does not seem to have the search functionality. What I am interested in is to search through the commits of a ...
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What technology/algorithm should be used to abstract meaning or keywords from a passage of text?
Hi and thanks for looking!
Background
I have a project wherein I need to abstract meaning from a passage of text to determine what the text is seeking and then match that text to a list of search ...
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Fuzzy search for a sub-string without tokens
Let's say I have the following lines:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, (tag) consectetur adipiscing elit.
Phasellus congue nisi vel lorem dignissim tristique. (tag)
Etiam vulputate lacus nec velit ...
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DB technology for efficient search in tabular data?
We have a repository of tables. Around 200 tables, each table can be thousands of rows, all tables are originally in Excel sheets.
Each table has a different scheme. All data is text or numbers.
We ...
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Find a “hole” in a list of numbers
What is the fastest way to find the first (smallest) integer that doesn't exist in a given list of unsorted integers (and that is greater than the list's smallest value)?
My primitive approach is ...
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Is there a more efficient way to filter large arrays than preg_match()?
I have a log that our web application builds. Each month it contains around 16,000 entries of a string with about the average sentence worth of text.
To filter/search through these in our admin panel ...
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Tineye.com search algorithm?
I was wondering how does tineye carry a search. Does it store all the images and then extracts exif data? Which in turn must be stored in a database and queried against. So probably it is using some ...
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How important is index size when searching?
My company has recently began using Apache Solr to search its data. As we learn how to use it we have gone down the path of indexing multiple fields to get the results we need. Most of these are ...
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How to effectivelly search for reusable code? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there an alternative to Google Code Search?
Google code search has been shut down. How to effectivelly search for common functions and algorithms now?
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Custom search engine
I have made a web application and now I would like to add a search option to it.
Since it is a learning project, I can't afford to buy some Google license. That is why I consider creating my own ...
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How to make a text search template? [closed]
I am not really sure what to call this, but I am looking for a way to have a "template" for my code to go by when searching for text.
I am working on a project where a summary for a piece of text is ...
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Find feature in NetBeans (or even Eclipse, or others) excluding comments
Is it possible to use the find feauture in NetBeans or other Java IDE excluding commented code from the results? How??
Given a project I'd like to find all the occurrences of a word without getting ...
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Search algorithm with co-ordinate (x,y) hints?
I am about to start writing a UI view where many small text items are laid-out over the view and when the user hovers over a text item a dynamically-generated image is displayed (like a tooltip), ...
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Suggestions for search methodology requested
I am throwing this question out to the 'greater creativity' for some suggestions on search methodology that might solve this problem. I have come up with a somewhat contrived example to attempt to ...
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How should HTML data formats be applied in everyday situations?
Given Google's shift towards a stronger focus on page markup data, how do the data formats used in Schema.org work alongside those for Microformats? How do these (and other specs) compliment each ...
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Best algorithm to correlate similar articles
which is the best way to correlate and group similar articles?
I mean something like Google News, which groups under a single topic different articles from different sources.
I'm not interested in ...
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Doubt regarding search engine/plugin(One present on the website itself)
I am new to web development and trying to study various types of websites as case study. Right now my focus is on how search engines works for an eCommerce website.
I know basic functioning for a ...
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How to search the web for programming related solutions? [closed]
I have the impression that Google has become unusable when searching for programming related questions.
Example: I'm Googling for
XML-RPC Redstone Cookie
I'm expecting results where all three ...
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How to Properly Google for C
The problem with trying to use Google to find tutorials or answers for the C programming language is that C is not an expressive enough name to narrow down the searches. Even coupled with keywords ...
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Space complexity of Iterative Deepening DFS
We read on Wikipedia > Iterative deepening depth-first search that
The space complexity of IDDFS is O(bd), where b is the branching factor and d is the depth of shallowest goal.
Wikipedia also ...
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Looking for good books about the theory behind search engines
I am working on a project that requires that I understand different techniques used by search engines for the web.
I have a strong scientific and development background, so I am not afraid of highly ...
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How to determine the source of a request in a distributed service system?
Map/Reduce is a great concept for sorting large quantities of data at once. What to do if you have small parts of data and you need to reduce it all the time?
Simple example - choosing a service for ...
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Why the decline in search traffic for popular programming languages?
Is there any solid evidence behind the reasons for decline in search volume for popular programming languages?
Could this possibly be due to improvements in finding necessary information (no need to ...
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Which database paradigm is suggested for a site with search capabilities?
Currently I'm trying to select the best DB paradigm to implement a web site with full-text search and faceted search capabilities. I have an important functional requirement:
The database paradigm ...
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How to design a website with search capabilities?
Suppose you want to create a web page with some search capabilities over a database. Search has to be restricted both on some categorization of data and open text given by the users. Functional and ...
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Does searching documentation and samples look bad?
I am starting a new job in a company with many developers and media people, the layout of the place is open with computers around a skinny oval,
I have worked in small teams and programming embedded ...
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An Extra-Intellectual search in a large text
Have you ever seen, met, or worked with a smart/intellectual search library/framework/algorithm during your career? I need a very nice mechanism to search among text, I don't need a "Personal ...
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Find next occurence in a Tree
Have a tree of variable depth, and width. What is the best algorithm to find the next occurence of the node in that tree.
Next = Search to the right side of the tree ( as in breadth first search )
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Search for a sub-string in a given array of strings
I have an array of n strings. I want to select all the elements of the array that starts with the given string.
Sorry if that is not clear. I'll give an example.
input = "as"
array = ["abas", ...
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Need Advice on PHP Search Functionality
I'm coding a Linux/PHP site for an organization. The site has two views, activated by a login $_SESSION variable indicating whether one is logged in as a member or not. I need to provide search ...
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How much better is Apache Solr than its non-Java competition?
How much better is Apache Solr than its non-Java competition? Is it so much better than other solutions, e.g. this one (Sphinx with PHP API) or Zend_Search_Lucene that it would be worth suggesting ...
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Importance of learning to google efficiently for a programmer?
This is not a debate on usage of Google being good or bad for programmers.
Kindly refrain from doing so in your answers.
Most people (a vast majority of who use the Internet) use Google these days. ...
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Resources on how to relate structured and semi- / un-structured information
I don't have a great background in information organisation / retrieval, but I know of a few ways of dealing with the problem. For structured information, it's possible to go OOish - everything ...
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How do you search your codebase?
I am using egrep to search our codebase, but at around 300MB of source code that starts to get a little slow. How do you search your codebase?
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Database fuzzy search concept
I thought about this, and have been trying to come up with solutions on how to fuzzy search a database, if for say example a user types a spelling mistake. Any glaring problems with the logic behind ...
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Why is it so hard to find anything on MS site?
I have always had this question in my mind and I would really be happy to get an explanation for this.
Is it only me or do you also feel the same way that it's hard to find anything on MS site.
For ...
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Tips for switching jobs and moving into web based programming?
I graduated in 2006 with a computer science degree and got solid grades (3.5 overall 3.8 in my major) For the past 4.5 years I've been working as a Software Engineer doing primarily rich client ...
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Interview question: How would you implement Google Search?
Supposed you were asked in an interview "How would you implement Google Search?"
How would you answer such a question? There might be resources out there that explain how some pieces in Google are ...
