Posted by David Robley on 06/24/69 11:36

Michael Hulse wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Just curious if anyone could give me some google
> keywords/links/suggestions/tips/comments/feedback on a good place to
> start for writing a search engine script.
>
> I think I might have a good idea for a specific type of search engine.
> Basically it would crawl web and index links to a specific type of
> file... really simple. Obviously making the results searchable is a
> must.
>
> Not sure where to start though.

Don't re-invent the wheel? http://www.mnogosearch.org/ can be restricted by
filetype; I'd imagine that others such as htdig would be similarly
configurable.




Cheers
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David Robley

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