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Building a search engine with Python, Tornado and Strus

by Patrick P. Frey

This tutorial based on a docker image will guide through the development of a search engine service based on Strus and its Python Bindings within the Tornado web-framework.

Searching Music Incipits in Metric Space with Locality-Sensitive Hashing

by Ajcek84

Using locality-sensitive hashing algorithm to improve performance of searching of musical incipits

Distributing a search engine index with Strus

by Patrick P. Frey

Article about implications of scalability requirements on full-text search engines and how Strus meets these requirements.

Multiobjective Tabu Search for Clustering and the Zoning Problem

by Arnaldo P. Castaño

This document describes a tabu Search algorithm embedded in a multiobjective framework capable of finding solutions to the zoning problem by allowing the optimization of multiple objectives.

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Search MySQL Like Google Using Match and Full-Text Search

by Arctype SQL

How to use full text search and the match keyword to find a string in every table in a MySQL database

Find Duplicate Text

by Dharmesh Barochia

Recommended best practices for finding and removing Duplicate Text/Documents

hOOt - full text search engine

by Mehdi Gholam

Smallest full text search engine (lucene replacement) built from scratch using inverted MGRB bitmap index, highly compact storage, operating in database and document modes

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by Ajcek84

Using locality-sensitive hashing algorithm to improve performance of searching of musical incipits

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How to search multiple terms in Google?

8 Apr 2019 by #realJSOP

google dork multiple search terms - Google Search[^]

Google

google-analytics

How to create a searchable text pdf using itextsharp and c#

27 Oct 2013 by 204.sharma

Hi, i have converted a tif file into pdf file. and now i want to create a searchable pdf using itextsharp.dll in c#.if any one have idea, please suggest me.Thanks

itextsharp

PDF

How do i Search my record using Vb.net

10 Dec 2012 by _Vitor Garcia_

Your problem is within sql sintaxe as you can't compare that way at where clause.try to change your code to this :Private Sub Searchbtn_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Searchbtn.Click Dim str as string = "" Str = "Select...

How to write (log2(log2n)) in java

27 Oct 2021 by Abdullatif Art

am trying to find the average number of comparisons in linear, binary, and Interpolation search and I found that by using this (log2(log2N)) we can find the average number of comparisons in interpolation but I could not represent this...

Java

Instagram Profile search by keywords

19 Oct 2015 by Abhinav Gupta

I am trying to get the profiles in Instagram by "search" keywords.I am getting only 50 profiles not more than this and there is no Next Page Token.I wanted to know ,how many profiles we can extract by using free API in Instagram

API

advanced search ASP.NET using c#

20 May 2011 by Abhinav S

A similar question[^] was asked earlier - maybe answers from that can help you.

ASP.NET

How Do I Search And Replace Multiple Files In Windows?

6 Apr 2014 by Abhinav S

You can try the FAR tool[^].You might find other tools when you do a search on the internet.Note: I have never used it myself so I don't know if there are any implications.

How to create a list that highlights middle selected text c# win. form

17 Feb 2015 by agent_kruger

I want to create a list that searches and retrieves all the data in list which is matching the searching criteria (the text to search can appears anywhere in the list's string start,middle,end)Sample Image Of What I Want To AchieveNow, the situation is i can handle the searching part...

C#3.5

WinForms

ListBox

Searching Music Incipits in Metric Space with Locality-Sensitive Hashing

27 Nov 2018 by Ajcek84

Using locality-sensitive hashing algorithm to improve performance of searching of musical incipits

Javascript

SQL

Blazor

How to extract bold text from pdf file programatically using pdfkit in iOS?

23 Aug 2018 by Akshay K. Bura

I am using PDFKit to display my pdf files. I've integrated the searching functionality but I want to search only bold texts/words. I'm wondering is it possible to do what I'm looking for or does Apple don't allow it? Because String data type is from Foundation class and UIFont is from UIKit. I...

Swift

iOS

PDF

how to refresh search result Web Part (OOTB)?

22 Feb 2015 by akshaynangare22@gmail.com

[^]Currently using Search OOTB ,in search Box enter some text and click on search button it display result ,but after that i clear the text in search box and click on search button ,the search web part not getting refresh , how to refresh search result Web Part (OOTB)

SharePoint2013

Passing variable from text control to google custome search engine CSE

12 Dec 2018 by Albert Sbnie

(function() { var cx = 'CXXXXXXXXXXX'; var gcse = document.createElement('script'); gcse.type = 'text/javascript'; gcse.async = true; gcse.src =...

controller

Search an Image By Image Like tineye reverse image search

2 Oct 2011 by Ali Tayeh

I'm reading a lot of references about image processing image pattern recognition and understand a lot of concept .its not a homework its my aim in image processing science and its my idea :)regards

image

Search file in SVN from client side

28 Jan 2013 by Allgaeuer

Hello everyone,i got the problem, that i have to search for a file of a specific type( *.xxx ) within a massive 10 year wide svn history. I am not very familiar with the workings of svn. For the beginning, it would be enough to search over all repositories within the current state, and not...

SVN

repository

What is The order of adding 1 to each element in a one dimensional array of integers.

8 Nov 2012 by Am Gayathri

What is The order of adding 1 to each element in a one dimensional array of integers. please share your thoughts.

TreeListView

trees

Searching for shared motif between strings in C

30 Jan 2015 by Amir Mohammad Nasrollahi

In this article, i consider the problem of identifying motifs in the biological sequence data sets. To solve this task, i present a new algorithm for finding patterns that just use library in C compiler and a new way to avoid using arrays search.

Objective-C

string

Paging losses on filtering on from and to date MVC

22 May 2017 by ammu11

I am doing a project and when searching based on from and to searching, it filters but on selecting the second page after giving paging the filter that given losses and shows all the items from db. controller public async Task Index(string sortOrder, string CurrentSort, string...

MVC5

MVC4

paging

TextBox in Header Template EXT.NET gridview

27 Oct 2012 by ancientrd

Hi, I want to add a textbox in the header of a column and when keypress event on it is fired i need to use a function (not java) from my form. It must pass the textbox.text value to that fuction.I need it to make a search in the gridview. I will want to add it in the filter and if i can take...

ASP.NET

Ext.Net

Gridview

TextBox in Header Template EXT.NET gridview

29 Oct 2012 by ancientrd

I changed the code to : Works like a charm now :))) can have filters + sorting + search in the gridview template :))))))))))

ASP.NET

Ext.Net

Gridview

search a word or sentence inside files saved in sql server

2 Jul 2011 by AndreFratelli

What do you mean you saved the files in the database? Their paths or their actual contents?Anyway, if you want to do this efficiently, you should take a look at clustering algorithms. Start here then move on to something more algorithmic.Be warned though, if this is something you know...

SQL-Server

file

Search Any Column, Return Entire Row Of Queried Column

7 Jul 2012 by André Kraak

Use the OR clause[^] in your SQL statement.SELECT * FROM Info WHERE Title LIKE '%" & searchInput & "%' OR Issue LIKE '%" & searchInput & "%'"Add an OR clause for each of the columns.

How to update index in Lucene.NET

17 Jul 2012 by aneesh_kamble

Hi,I am doing a POC on Search using Lucene.NET.I fire a stored procedure which fetches around 50000 records from the database.Thses records I put in the Lucene Index.Now when the records in database changes, how to update the Lucene index.Deleting the entire previous indexed and...

Lucene.NET

How to display data in Update panel with Textbox and Gridview table ?

7 Dec 2011 by Anuj Banka

i think you simply need to place a script manager and one update panel and in content template place both text box and grid view it will work fine.

How to implement a search engine for dynamic pages

16 Oct 2014 by AnvilRanger

If you are looking for an open source solution to handle searching needs locally to your site you should checkout Lucene[^]. It requires some setup and a little programming, but it would be what you are needing.

HTML

Java

Spring

Best way to search content from millions of excel files?

5 May 2016 by AnvilRanger

This is not an easy problem to solve. You mention that you don't want to use SQL, so we can assume you want to look at the actual contents of the Excel file. If you are talking about physically searching the contents of millions of Excel files then you are going to to have to wait a long time....

MS-Excel

How do I develop ajax search box using visual studio 2015

6 Jul 2016 by AnvilRanger

I would suggest you forget about the AjaxControlToolkit and look at using the jQuery UI Autocomplete. It is much simpler to work with.jQuery UI Autocomplete - Autocomplete | jQuery UI[^]Using the jQuery UI Autocomplete with ASP.Net Webforms - Implement jQuery AutoComplete TextBox from...

Visual-Studio

Ajax-toolkit

Tools to build a semantic search engine

19 Sep 2023 by Apoorva666

I'm trying to build a semantic search engine for my production application. I tried building one from scratch. I did the tokenization, vectorization,... & other steps myself, but the whole process was consuming a lot of time. So I decided to use...

Python

AWS

fuzzy

Semantic search on numeric data

24 Nov 2023 by Apoorva666

I have a dataset in csv format. Most columns have numbers in them. The data is mostly number based, with little text. A sample of my dataset: Test_name Execution_date User_name Total_tests Passed_tests Failed_tests test1, ...

machine-learning

NLP

Boolean Text Search Queries and their Processing

20 May 2011 by Apriorit Inc

This article describes the development of the library for performing text search based on Boolean search queries.

Search MySQL Like Google Using Match and Full-Text Search

1 Apr 2021 by Arctype SQL

How to use full text search and the match keyword to find a string in every table in a MySQL database

Multiobjective Tabu Search for Clustering and the Zoning Problem

18 Nov 2013 by Arnaldo P. Castaño

This document describes a tabu Search algorithm embedded in a multiobjective framework capable of finding solutions to the zoning problem by allowing the optimization of multiple objectives.

optimization

Session management using cookie in subdomain

22 May 2018 by Arunprasath Natarajan

Dear Friends,In the website when user log's in session is created and stored in cookie as well.When the session is cleared, i am recreating the session with cookie value again.I am creating the cookie value in www.xyz.comCan i use the same cookie value in its sub-domain but it...

ASP.NET4

session

Session management using cookie in subdomain

22 May 2018 by Arunprasath Natarajan

Save the cookies based on the subdomain and use the same. I got the solution on my own.

ASP.NET4

session

How to implement a search engine for dynamic pages

16 Oct 2014 by AshishPatha

I have a website which shows the pages dynamically from Database. How should i implement the search engine with the data in database and how should i give the page urls based on the search.I just need the any open source library or how does this works. I will implement based on it.

HTML

Java

Spring

SEO For ASP.NET Web Site

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

Every ASP.NET developer (or at least most of us) wants a lot of visitors to their web sites. Google, Yahoo and other search engines can send plenty

web

Contains like Search in SQL Server 2005

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

Contains Like search in SQL Server 2005 This is my first post to wiki. Here I have to show how to contains like search into sql server 2005.There is

SQL

server

Jquery Autocomplete Combo with Scrollable Results

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

Jquery Autocomplete Combo with Scrollable ResultsWhoever is in search of a basic business class combo box with autocomplete option might feel

auto-complete

javascript replace() function replace only single characters

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

javascript replace() function replace only single charactersI have been trying to use javascript replace() to search and replace special individual

Javascript

Search data in mysql using vb.net 2010

24 May 2013 by athan_makubex

Hello Code Project,I am creating windows application using vb.net 2010 with mysql as my backend. It has a login window where the user input its username. My question is how to create this event? I want that if a user enters a wrong username (or not in the record of the database) it will...

MySQL

Missing files and properties from already indexed data through search in sharepoint 2013 PROD environment

20 Mar 2018 by Athar Raza Faridi

Hi Everyone, We are facing some issues with our search : On full crawl all documents are crawled and available in system. After n number of incremental crawl either some documents gets deleted from crawl index, or some of the properties(metadata) of a document (like title of document) gets...

SharePoint2013

Filtering Data Source table

25 Jul 2013 by Athul Tuttu Baby

Hello... I need to make a custom rows filtering page from my database.I have several radio button lists. One for brands,one for sizes.etcWhat i want is, when i select 1 brand, the corresponding rows can be shown. Also if i select another radio button for example a size, i need the rows...

SQL

DataGridView

Advanced search control for angular

23 Mar 2023 by Ayush Bajpai 2023

Did you find anything? Please suggest me too, would be helpful. Thanks

Angular10

How to edit data in search result in C#

25 Oct 2017 by Azzyloth

I managed to create a code for my edit button and search button. My edit button is functional. It can edit my data in database, my search code is also functional. My problem is to edit data in search results. Like if i search "naruto", my datagridview will filter all the names that has "naruto"...

google search api using c#

18 Dec 2014 by BacchusBeale

The URL to search example string "hello world" is :https://www.google.com.au/search?q=hello%20world[^]Use this with HttpWebRequest and read the response. After that there will be some work to do to extract the information.

API

Hai Friends I Have A Question On Asp.Net

29 Mar 2015 by BacchusBeale

To keep the starting zeros you need to treat the input/output as a string. if you change to a number the zeros will be removed.

ASP.NET

search engine for documents finding keywords

15 Apr 2015 by BacchusBeale

For example, the pseudocode might be:> define a class Result with variables int count and string filename> make an ArrayList or other collection to add Results to> get List of file names from directory> get list of keywords from user> for each file in file names do:>> for each...

Java

document

Searching data with 25 checkboxes and 21 textboxes , cannot get corresponding results when searching both text and checkboxes.

11 Aug 2017 by Badal Kumar

Seems only problem with your where clause condition, just try to put conditions as mentioned below. AND ((@search1 = null) OR (DateOrdered like '%' + @search1 + '%')) Need to specify each search condition like this, so statement will ignore if some search condition not provided.

SQL

checkbox

advanced search pattern make me confused?

25 Sep 2012 by bbirajdar

Your problem is that you are 'confused'. Since this problem is not technical or related to code, I can't help you on this. And yes, regarding the code, I can suggest you to use parenthesis to enclose the operands and operators wherever you feel to make the code readable. Also remember that the...

ASP.NET

Find a partial string match in column from text box in datagridview

27 Feb 2013 by BC @ CV

Use the Contains() method.If (StringToSearch.Contains(Me.TextBox1.Text)) Then

DataGridView

c# searching in pdf files

21 Feb 2012 by bcasillas

hii have thousands of pdf files in one server and i want to develop and internal web application to search some words inside each file....one week ago i did a dll for this (using itextsharp), but it take a long time to receive a response (15 minutes aprox.)what can i do to improve...

Lost checkbox value when filtering in datagridview using textbox

18 May 2016 by bellatriks

Hi,There's a checkbox column in DataGridView. Also, there's a text box which is used for searching.When I type in textbox for search, results are filtered automatically. I choose the items I want from the filtered results. When I type another word/letters or delete the keyword from the...

VB12

DataGridView

I need some help about Search Content Win 8 App

16 Jul 2013 by berkayerdi

I add Search to Declarations. And I add search contract from new item. But I run the program, click search(on charms), insert some word and press enter. But the word which is I entered isn't come in to QueryText. How I Solve this? My project is nearly finish but I cant do this "search". public...

Win8

Windows

I need some help about Search Content Win 8 App

10 Oct 2013 by Bilaal John S

I think this samples will help youhttp://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Search-app-contract-sample-118a92f5[^]Thanks,Bilaal

Win8

Windows

How to search google within a desktop application

7 Aug 2012 by BillW33

Its pretty easy to find the answer to your question about the Google search API by using Google. ;)Take a look at these websites:Web search Developer's API[^]How to search google and bing in c#/[^]

Highlighting searched word and its meaning in c#

3 Nov 2014 by BillWoodruff

Assume: a WinForms project where:1. ControlsButton: btnTranslate: click to translate English to Arabic: uses rtbEnglish, rtbArabicButton: btnSearchButton: click to search for an English word: uses tbSearchEnglishRichTextBox: rtbEnglish: displays user-entered English...

recognition

RichTextBox

speech

How Can I Search Files In A Folder And It's Folder And Then Open Them In Listview C#

19 Dec 2014 by BillWoodruff

"there is no error messages. it is working but when i click on button, paths on the listview are opening automatically. I want to open these folders by clicking on their path on listview"The files are opening "autotmatically" because you are executing:Process.Start("explorer.exe",...

process

ListView

Search in list of expandoObject in c#

5 Jan 2015 by BillWoodruff

What I see here is an attempt to use an Array of Anonymous Types, not a use of the Expando in the System.Dynamic Library: big difference !Further, since your Array elements here are Anonymous Types which are not themselves Enumerable ... i.e. not Arrays, for example ... there's no way you...

LINQ

Javascript read a text file from a string

11 Apr 2020 by Blazin 3330

So I am trying to learn javascript, but I cannot find a tutorial that will allow me to search a text file using a string. I am wanting to search a text file at: constant path = "./data/data.txt" And I want to search for `${server.id} prefix: ` I would then want to store the full line (as...

How to create a searchable text pdf using itextsharp and c#

27 Oct 2013 by borntrouble

The current pdf you've got is an image converted to pdf. Hence it cannot be directly made searchable.your tiff file should be first OCR'ed and then get it converted into PDF file so that it can be searchable.for OCR you can use the open source Tesseract OCR engine. Hope this helps

itextsharp

PDF

If two same fvalue nodes occur in A* search,then which one should be in the front of queue.

24 Jan 2014 by Brady Bar

/*I am trying to design a solution to 8-puzzle problem in artificial intelligence using state-space tree.If nodes with same fvalue are generated then which should be removed from the queue first,the one with the lesser gval or the one with the higher gvalue or there is any other criterion for...

How to search a string in documents like pdf, word, ppt

10 May 2012 by c chidambaram

Hi everyone , I need to search string in a collection of documents in a folder. i had an idea of using lucene.net and xapian. Is there any code snippets to search string in documents??

string

How to write a binary search tree to a text file

22 May 2021 by Casper Josiah

I'm trying to write a binary Search tree to a text file in sorted order, my write method is in my BST class. When I print out the BST in Order Tranversal it works perfectly. When I try to write it to a text file it works but the current node...

Java

binary

file

Suitable Programming Approach for Web Crawling

4 Dec 2012 by cbf28

Hi all,I am an old programmer working on a new idea.I am looking to crawl a specific website and all its sub-domains and trawl it for keywords, and do a count of the occurence of that word under the domain, and store the result in a database.For example , consider IBM's portal (a...

robot

advanced search ASP.NET using c#

10 Apr 2012 by chandel123

if(doctor_in...

ASP.NET

Search Field in a VB.NET application

31 Jan 2013 by CHill60

Have a look here[^] - In particular the response from XspiritO has links to other suggestions. Hopefully you'll be able to get the gist of a solution despite most of the examples being in C#.There is also this[^] CodeProject article specifically for VB.NETIn terms of searching the...

Advanced search in C# using multiple dropdownlist

27 Apr 2016 by CHill60

Assuming that you have a SqlCommand object which I will call sqlCommand and your 3 badly named comboBoxes are in order c1 - rent, c2 - gender, c3 - location (I'm using the shorthand because I could not be bothered to create 3 comboBoxes on my sandbox form)Firstly you need to know which, if...

SQL

database

Best way to search content from millions of excel files?

5 May 2016 by CHill60

You've stated that you don't want to use SQL Server but a database would certainly be a good way forward. PostgreSQL might be your best option - see PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database[^]Alternatively you could use a file text search - there are some suggestions on...

MS-Excel

Filter data in datagridview by using a textbox in VB.NET

22 May 2017 by CHill60

Yes there is. Research material from Google[^] [EDIT - here is a link to the MSDN documentation Building a Drop-Down Filter List for a DataGridView Column Header Cell[^]

DataGridView

How to search a directory of .txt files for specific string (word or phrase)

11 Dec 2018 by CHill60

You could adapt the technique used in this CodeProject article File Searcher in C#[^] or this one WinSearchFile: how to search files on your PC[^] Or the techniques discussed here .net - c# Fastest string search in all files - Stack Overflow[^]