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How to search for information related to Go programming language?
If there's something that would kill Go language, then it's name.
I find it very hard to find anything in web related just by using "Go" in the query. The word is on of the most frequent in English. ...
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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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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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Best algorithm/practice when creating a search mechanism for your database?
I have been designing a database where it is very important to provide users with a good search mechanism. So I was wondering what some of the best practices are for using keywords to search over ...
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Data indexing frameworks fit for large E-Commerce applications
we wrote and still maintain a large E-Commerce application. Our feature list resembles what you would expect from most shops. We'd like to improve some of our features, and now the search/suggestion ...
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If I wanted to build a search engine, how would I start?
Can somebody point me into the right direction? I really don't have experience writing code but I'm a fast learner. I'm not trying to say it will be easy but I hope somebody can help me...
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Search multiple tables
I have developed a web application that is used mainly for archiving all sorts of textual material (documents, references to articles, books, magazines etc.). There can be any given number of archive ...
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Are there more efficient ways to search for help/documentation than Google/SO/…?
Google sometimes come up with irrelevant links, not everything is available on SO, there are cases where the local documentation is also annoying to look through... Are there other efficient ways you ...
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Is there a useful correlation between choice of web-browser/search engine and good quality programmers? [closed]
After a round of interviews earlier this year, which included some practical questions with access to a computer, I noticed that, at least for the applicants we were seeing, there was a high inverse ...
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Reverse engineering airline reservations systems
I saw an interesting conversation on here about airline reservation systems and the services that connect them (like Sabre).
This is an almost identical analog to a problem I've been trying to figure ...
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can a regex search engine for the web be done and if so, how?
I think it would be a great idea if we had a regular expression search engine, but can it be done? It seems impossible since there's no feasible way of indexing such a huge amount of data properly and ...
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Is dynamic HTML layout good from an SEO perspective?
Just wondering whether dynamically built HTML layout is fine from SEO perspectives? So let's assume e-commerce engine and its most popular page - products catalog. So 90% of the page is built using ...
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Looking for searchable code archives
As part of research for a user group presentation I'm looking for usage examples of certain code constructs.
I'm looking for online source code repository collections that allow me to search inside ...
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Does heavy JavaScript use adversely impact Googleability?
I've been developing the client-side for my web-app in JavaScript.
The JavaScript can communicate with my server over REST (HTTP)[JSON, XML, CSV] or RPC (XML, JSON).
I'm writing writing this ...
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Client-Side V.S. Server-Side Searching?
I am currently helping to design a web site and application in HTML. We would like the user to be able to search the site/app for desired content via a search bar. We would also like to include an ...
