Re: Search engine database structure

2001-01-26 Thread John Jensen
Most search engines use databases. Some search directories or web addresses directly. Some use spiders to collect data. Search engines are as varied as the kinds of jobs they do. First, decide what needs to be searched and what searched for. Then research it. Don't just plug a stock program into a

Search engine database structure

2001-01-25 Thread Tobias Talltorp
As I understand it, search engines use a "special" type of database structure. They have a special table for common words/phrases and another one with all the data. They link theese together by a third one that contains only the id´s from the other two, thus making the search much faster. How do t