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Building a bot, phase I

By jasonslater • Jul 21st, 2008 • Category: Lead Story

Some search engines however simply require a URL and the essential information is automatically retrieved using an automated mechanism - bots.



Taking a new theme for a ride

By jasonslater • Jul 4th, 2008 • Category: News

Over here at Eggnchips we do like to fiddle about with technology so we are trying out a new Theme, the Mimbo Theme from Darren Hoyt, let us know what you think.

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Search and stop words

By jasonslater • Jun 20th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story

In this article we discuss the impact of stop words on the Eggnchips search engine project.



Eggnchips: Improving the search results

By jasonslater • Jun 18th, 2008 • Category: Theory

Using a search engine, or even a link directory, from a user point of view it almost seems that simplistic systematic method is being employed.



Search and URL Submission Mechanics

By jasonslater • May 23rd, 2008 • Category: Project Development

Discussing the components of the Eggnchips Search Engine and their relationship with the resulting pages returned to the user.



Eggnchips, components of search

By jasonslater • May 23rd, 2008 • Category: Features, Project Development, search

Currently the Eggnchips search engine is one large application. However, whilst putting together the basic search engine, it has become apparent that the engine can be divided into a number of distinct components that combine to form the overall platform, these are:

The component that submits web sites (I call it the Finder)
The component that Gets [...]



Eggnchips, Stage One of Phase One

By jasonslater • May 22nd, 2008 • Category: search

 
The first stage of the search engine is up and running with the ability to perform some simple keyword searches. The engine shows the basic screen (the idea here is to keep the homepage short and sweet). An option is included to make EggnChips the home page. A search term can be entered and I [...]



Dynamic Information

By jasonslater • May 15th, 2008 • Category: Project Development

Information needed for inclusion in the search engine:
Master Categories: #cats#
Sub-Categories: #subcats#
Total Links: #url-count#
Total Links Pending: #url-pending#
Link Submissions Today: #url-pending-today#

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Building the basics of search

By jasonslater • Apr 23rd, 2008 • Category: Project Development

The EggnChips development is getting underway. The first part of the project is to build a simple keyword search engine.
In this project a form will be presented the user with a familiar text input box followed by a button for performing a search. To make the system usable and to provide a mechanism for [...]



Exploring search using keywords

By jasonslater • Apr 8th, 2008 • Category: Theory

To understand more about the way search works, and to gain an idea into how it could work in the future, it may be useful to talk about what we would do if search was not available the compare it to a keyword based search engine. So, if the Internet did not exist - what would [...]