Search Engine Development

December 5th, 2006 by amorita

I have developed search engines for the UCR Libraries websites. The one found on the main Library website gets both the webpages and news articles from the in-house content management system. Library staff can add meta-data to pull in better search engine results and external page content is cached via the crawler every evening. The Library website search engine also suggests resources tailored to the search queries at the top of the screen.

Optimized database for improved search performance
I took existing code and made significant improvements in search performance and
user interface. The database now imports Excel documents (XLS) which is easier for staff.

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