Intelligent Search Engine Query

jonathen

Hi all,

I wonder if anyone could point me in the right direction. In the past I have used simple PHP search engines scripts on my site which work fine. However, there is one thing I need to do, but cannot find where to even start! I need to be able to configure the search engine to display results not in "best match" format, but rather in "keyword pertains to x page" format. To explain this, an example would be:

In a normal search script, if you search for "seaside" the results would be by best match, so the first page to contain the word "seaside" would be the first result.

I want it to work like this: If you search for "seaside" the script would see that I have the word "seaside" linked to southend.php & clacton.php and would go to those pages first and then all other pages containing "seaside" afterwards.

It's basically the same concept as google.com etc putting particular sites higher up the search engine because they pay higher premiums.

Does anyone know where I could find a script I could modify for this, or better still, how I could do this myself?

Any help appreciated.

Jonathen

klansman

maybe you can keep a separate database with those higher-ranked addresses, so that when you perform a search query, the script would check that database before actually performing the search.

maybe that's a bad idea, but it could do the trick.

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jonathen

Hey, that's good thinking actually 🙂 Of course, it makes perfect sense; get the php script to query database1 which contains the preferred results, and then database2 which contains all other results.

Cheers for that, it has helped 🙂 Now I just gotta put it into action!

Jonathen

klansman

btw: i learned that google.com uses a m.i.t. PhD. project as a search engine... not a simple thing.

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jonathen

m.i.t PhD project? What's that then?

DRTechie

it means a PHD student that goes to Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT) created it as a project.

klansman

yes, that's it!

it means hard-core! lots of theory and frustration, but not much time invested in programming...

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