How to Use Search on WebmasterWorld.com?

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[ngentot]

Am I missing something here? I just seem not be able to find anything useful from the search feature....is there a way to search in a specific forum? And what is the difference between "All" and "WebmasterWorld" index? Is there something else beside WebmasterWorld on this site that I'm not aware of?

[deejay]

Yeah, the on-site search has always been a bit of a dud.

But the trick is to use Google and do a site:www.webmasterworld.com search.

To search a specific forum, use site:www.webmasterworld.com/forum88/

(change the forum number as appropriate)

[Yidaki]

What deejay said, use Google. Here's a quick solution for including a google search form on every WebmasterWorld page that lets you search WebmasterWorld: The Handy Dandy WebmasterWorld Site Search [webmasterworld.com] - Bill on msg#:2

>And what is the difference between "All" and "WebmasterWorld" index

There's WebmasterWorld.com [WebmasterWorld.com] and SearchengineWorld.com [searchengineworld.com].

[Brett_Tabke]

Suggest a good search engine?

requirements:
- handle 2-3 million pages with room to grow to 10million,
- have all the bells and whistles possible
- Give a response time under 2 seconds under moderate 50k an hour max load conditions.
- and cost under $500.

[Yidaki]

>- handle 2-3 million pages with room to grow to 10million,
>- Give a response time under 2 seconds under moderate 50k an hour max load conditions.
>- and cost under $500.

There are free packages that can handle this size pretty well (2-3 to 10 million pages). There are currently ~96k WebmasterWorld pages indexed at google - that's a nobrainer.

50k queries / hour? Could be an interesting experiment. I'd put the search engine, robot and indexer on 1 to n extra machine(s).

>- have all the bells and whistles possible

What bells and whistles? You won't need site, anchor, link or similar advanced search commands. Link popularity? Not needed here. Phrase support, customizable ranking parameters, ...

Give me full robot access and i'd set something up for ya (mind you: hosted on a mac). Just for fun and testing. If you're interested sticky me.

[Brett_Tabke]

You haven't given a name yet. The only thing I have seen that would even come close to working here is a g appliance and those are $20k plus.

here is a hint: none of these will work:
[searchtools.com...]

Closest I have seen yet is asp seek. Unfortunatly, the crawler is junk and would need to be rewritten. It also has little in the way of configuarbility.

> currently ~96k

Ya, we only allow a subset to be indexed. many forums are blocked...

[Yidaki]

>You haven't given a name yet.

mnogo

>Closest I have seen yet is asp seek

aspseek is a mnogo clone.

I run mnogo search engines from 100 k to 2,4 million index sizes and found them to be good enough for my needs. Better than the current WebmasterWorld site search anyway. Speed is an issue with mnogo as well as with aspseek - at least a challenge.

[moltar]

Have a look at Enterprise Search Summit 2004 [infotoday.com] (May 11-12, 2004).

Could be very interesting!

[Teknorat]

"Suggest a good search engine?
requirements:
- handle 2-3 million pages with room to grow to 10million,
- have all the bells and whistles possible
- Give a response time under 2 seconds under moderate 50k an hour max load conditions.
- and cost under $500."

How about Gigablast? [gigablast.com...]

[Dpeper]

Why can't googleguy pull some strings? ;)

[Teknorat]

LMAO good question! I don't know how much Matt from Gigablast charges but it's got to be cheaper than google. (And just as good quality IMO)

[choster]

Next time anybody complains about search.dmoz.org ...

[grandpa]

I have a question about this:

To search a specific forum, use site:www.webmasterworld.com/forum88/

Is there a list of forum names to numbers? Or would that search work for site:www.webmasterworld.com/foo/

<hmmm>
You know what, try to forget that I asked that question :)
</hmmm>

[Brett_Tabke]

you must also remember the massive - just massive load spiders put on the system.

I've tried mngo - aspseek is obviously better because it is free ;-)

Either way, both are too slow. On a 2.8 p4 with 1 gig memory, the first search was at 3 seconds to generate. Imagine what that would be under load?

[stuntdubl]

Best way to search WW:
[webmasterworld.com...]

check- handle 2-3 million pages with room to grow to 10million,
check- have all the bells and whistles possible
check- Give a response time under 2 seconds under moderate 50k an hour max load conditions.
free- and cost under $500."

[skippy]

Nice one stuntdubl....I did not even know you could play around here like that. Very Cool

[Brett_Tabke]

unfortunatly, google has indexed less than a quarter of WebmasterWorld and I doubt it ever digs it all out.

[Dpeper]

stuntdubl, brought a very important point up in his post.. to my questions earlier

Why can't googleguy pull some strings?

So I would like to rephrase it.

Why can't (Insert search engine here)guy pull some strings?

[Brett_Tabke]

I couldn't accept it if they did.

[Dpeper]

Thats why I love this board! Integrity.

[SlowMove]

What about a few options that shouldn't really slow things down too much like sort by date or the number of messages on the thread or a specific forum?