In sharepoint 2007 sites, we can search for people or other contents. Is the search engine able to do fuzzy match so that "Micheal" can be corrected to "Michael"? If it's possible, does it need extra configuration?
I am also writing a custom webpart that uses sharepoint search service, a web service that has url like "http://site/_vti_bin/search.asm". Is it possible to use this service to do fuzzy search as well?
Thanks.
The Search Summary Web Part provides that capability: try searching SharePoint for "Microsfot" and you'll get a "Did you mean Microsoft?" prompt. However, I only seem to see it when I get no results at all, and it looks like it has some other limitations:
Threewill Wiki (posted by Kirk Liemohn)
I haven't seen that kind of matching used specifically, but you might get some ideas from the wildcard search web part on codeplex.
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I need to create filter like below link
https://paytm.com/shop/g/paytm-home/incredible-offers/smartphones-flat-20-cashback
When i click the smart phone on Landing page then filter show based on smart phone
Like camera color sim internal memory external memory .. etc
Current i have list of productViewmodel which contain the product and product variant only
Please guide me
Thanks in Advance :)
The search term you are looking for is faceted search.
One option to implementing it is using a faceted search engine, such as Bobo-Browse.Net (which is implemented as an extension to the Lucene.Net search engine). It is a .NET port of the Java version, meaning it is a 100% .NET solution.
See the faceted search prototype and car demo for some examples of how to implement it in MVC.
Full Disclosure: I am a major contributor to the Bobo-Browse.Net project.
Another option is to use solr, which runs as a separate process than the web site that uses it. It is a Java-based solution.
Either way, the best solution from a web site is to use AJAX so the drill-down happens without reloading the entire page.
I make a Q&A website like Stack Overflow, and now I want to add it searching capability.
I want going to use the Google Search API but one of my friends said that it's better to have your own searching engine because Google doesn't index all pages (specially recently added pages) and also it has negative effect on the site ranking.
My question is that these statements is true or not and what is the best way for searching in this site?
Depending on your database full text search capabilities may be available.
For example check MySQL : https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/fulltext-search.html
Alternative solution is to use a dedicated search index like Lucene: https://lucene.apache.org/core/
I am currently developing an application in Rails, which requires to check whether a website has been listed in Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yelp and Yellow Pages. From my research the best is to check site: domain.com on Google and Bing and look for results and check in Yahoo directory for the domain.
Is there any other way to do it? I mean some code snippet to check on domain's home page or using their API or something like that. Also how to check on Yelp and Yellow pages.
You can use mechanize and write web-style drivers
Google: do a search on your domain with this on the search term
site:checkmeout360.com
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3A<SITE_NAME>.com
Try to see how yelp, yahoo, bing and yellow pages do indexing. Then you can use mechanize to automate the searching process for you, you can use mechanize to do the search like above with google, then write asserts (check if stuff you are looking for is on the search result)
Search engines don't appreciate automated queries that are sent their way.
Here is what Google has to say about it:
Google's Terms of Service do not allow the sending of automated queries of any sort to our system without express permission in advance from Google. Sending automated queries consumes resources and includes using any software (such as WebPosition Gold) to send automated queries to Google to determine how a website or webpage ranks in Google search results for various queries. In addition to rank checking, other types of automated access to Google without permission are also a violation of our Webmaster Guidelines and Terms of Service.
I'd like to make a tool which accesses a search engine programatically.
I've been enjoying using YQL recently and thought it might be useful since it can dig data out of HTML pages.
But I tried it with Google, Bing, and Yahoo search and they all seem to block YQL.
I wonder if there are some lesser-known web search sites that might work with YQL.
Or actually if there's still any search engine which offers an API that would be even better.
(In fact I'm only searching linguistics.stackexchange.com because the Stack Exchange APIs don't provide a way to search by text that I can find.)
Most search engine sites will block access from screen scrapers and other agents. YQL is designed to respect the robots.txt file, so on many sites like this it won't work.
Instead, I suggest moving a step above HTML screen scraping and using a published search API.
In YQL for example, there is a table which provides access to the Bing search results:
select * from microsoft.bing where query="soccer" and source in ("web","image")
You could also look at the Yahoo! BOSS API or using the Bing Search API directly.
Sorry for the bad title and description, but I was wondering if there is anyway I could search/list products from other sites (say Express, American Eagle), from a web app I create, even if the site doesn't have an API.
Thanks
Sure. How do you think Google and every other search engine does it? They just spider the sites and index the contents. The devil, of course, is in the details. But it's certainly possible to do.
I don't think so. Unless you want only to fetch some data from a certain HTML page, then you need to use some regular expressions. But searching the database is not possible if you don't have the ability to connect to it directly or via some APIs.