Google-like Search Engine in PHP/mySQL [closed]

Answer 1

You could put all the files on Google Docs, then scrape the results to your own web site.

My concern is that OCR accuracy is still an issue, so one consideration for a search requirement is the ability to perform "fuzzy" searches. Fuzzy meaning when the OCR incorrectly recognizes the word "hat" for "hot", the search engine will be smart enough to return results that are similar but not exact. In Oracle, there is a function called UTL_MATCH that compares the similarity between two strings: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/appdev.112/e25788/u_match.htm#ARPLS352

A function like this would be useful.

Answer 2

Why don't you try something like Google Search Appliance or Google Enterprise? It will have cost associated but then it will save you from re-inventing the wheel and give you "google like" search.

Answer 3

You can also try out SphinxSearch. Craigslist uses sphinx and it can connect to both mysql and postgresql.

Answer 4

You might want to check Sphider. In my experience it is quite fast and does the indexing automatically. It is also open source so you could take the code and modify it for your needs.

Answer 5

There are some interesting search engines for you to take a look at. I don't know what you mean by "Google like" so I'm just going to ignore that part.

• Take a look at the Lucene engine. The original is high performance but written in Java. There is a port of Lucene to PHP (already mentioned elsewhere) but it is too slow.
• Take a serious look at the Xapian Project. It's fast. It's written in C++ so you'll most probably have to build it for your target server(s) but has PHP bindings.

Answer 6

Check this Lucene port for PHP:

• Zend_Search_Lucene