Search Engine Software: Behind the Scenes

• Administration

  • Turnkey search engine application

  • Search engine toolkit / API

• Indexing

  • Locating text in documents and records

  • Extracting text to create the index

    • Storing words

    • Storing document info

• Search control

• Metasearch & distributed search ("peer to peer")

• Search log reports

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Best Practices for Search Engines
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