Author Archive
Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Vertical Search Engine Template - Inject URLs
In the previous post we outlined the way that we are forming the commands and where we are creating some directories. We will be doing three search indexes and merging them - the main subject is “nanaimo”, with tastes of “diving” and “music”.
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
Vertical Search Engine Template - Home Directory
It has become apparent that a sort of template is needed - an explanation of what is happening plus an example of the commands in a generic form. First, an outline of the project, we want to keep in mind the eventual process to follow once we progress past the initial stage of making sure [...]
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Distributed Search Engine
Nutch (the program we use to create our search sites) is capable of acting in “distributed” fashion. Nutch is integrated with a program called “Hadoop” that provides the “distributed” functionality. In the case of the geocentric search engines there exists the possibility that Nanaimo along with another 10 cities on Vancouver Island might be approached [...]
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Sunday, February 8th, 2009
Search Engine Terms and Concepts
After this post there won’t be any explanation of the following terms or explanation of the following general concepts. Nutch is an open-source search engine. It is programmed using the JAVA language and makes use of a program called “Tomcat” (”Apache Tomcat” actually).
Nutch consists of a crawler, a parser, a database to store webpages, an [...]
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Intelligent Crawling
The normal behavior of an agent that crawls (fetches) web pages is to get the webpage, extract the links on that page to other webpages and then go and get those linked pages, extract the links from them, repeat. The goal of Google, Yahoo, et al is to have crawled and indexed every page that [...]
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Flavored Search Results
When we say that the search results of our vertical search engine are better than Google et al what we mean is that there is a “flavor” to the results. Our results will never be more comprehensive than theirs because we don’t index anywhere near the number of webpages that they do. A vertical search [...]
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
Vertical Search Engine For NanaimoSearch.com
We are in the process of introducing some technologies for geogeneric sites, for the most part right now those technologies are WordPress plugins for general use over all geo-generics, but also a few generic-specificic ones and specifically one for the “search” generic. We will be demonstrating eventually at “NanaimoSearch(dot)com. We are in the process of [...]
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
Best Domains For Investment In A Depression
The assumption is that an economy that is in trouble will necessarily put more importance on the more local economies. A world economy crisis will “degenerate” into national economies and a national economy crisis will result in more individual reliance on the local economy. Eventually it will break down into geographically based economies that would [...]
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
Blogging And Domainers
I’ve been doing a little research lately concerning a whole bunch of things which end up being associated with each other and I thought I’d put down a few thoughts about what I’ve noticed.
There exists a company called “Pay Per Post” and what they are is a place where bloggers get connected with people who [...]
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Shopping Cart Plugin
We’ve been modifying the wp-shoppingcart plugin which can be found at “instinct.co.nz”. We are making it so that it can be used for our purposes which the standard version isn’t. We have a few purposes which we need a shopping cart for.
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Saturday, September 20th, 2008
Geo Generic Dot Com Data
We have a lot of data concerning the registrations of geo-generic dot coms. We took the top 600 cities in the USA/Canada/Australia/UK/NZ and 300 generics which makes about 200,000 domains. We queried whois to get owners, registration dates, etc and put the results into a database which we can make queries on.
This yields some interesting [...]
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
WordPress PlugIns
We use wordpress and a whole bunch of wordpress plugins to develop our sites. Other people are using our setup and the plugins that we develop and people have asked us which plugins we are using in our efforts. So here is a partial list which we will add to as necessary.