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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 [...]



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#

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eggnchips.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F05%2F15%2Fdynamic-information%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Dynamic+Information’;
addthis_pub = ”;



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 [...]