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How can I make my website visible in the search engine?

How do I make a search engine tool on my website?

  • for example if i wanted people to search for all the users.

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For that, you would only need to write a database query. Things get more interesting when you want large scale or fuzzy full text searching (Sphinx, Solr Lucene, etc).

Toby Thain

Question is somewhat confusing, a search engine is quite complex to build, but if you just need a textbox where you enter a name and search items (e.g. users) in your own database, then you just add a textbox, and when submitting with an event (e.g. button click), query your database with the user's input. The result that comes from the database you can use to populate (fill) some table or list or gridview or anything. I see you tagged your question with php and mysql so check here http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mysql_select.asp

Andrei Cristof

If you really want to build a search engine from scratch, I'd recommend using http://lucene.apache.org/solr/. However, if you just want to do things like search for a username, in that situation using Solr is kind of like taking out a housefly with a nuclear missile. You're better off doing a database query, as Toby mentioned, or just implementing Google Site Search.

Matt Muller

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