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Asked: 2026-05-11T16:19:11+00:00

Background: I’m building a poetry site with user submitted content. The relevant user actions

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Background:

I’m building a poetry site with user submitted content. The relevant user actions for my questions are that users can:

  • a. Go to fancysitename.com/view to see all poems so far
  • b. Go to fancysitename.com/submit to submit your own poem.
  • c. Go to fancysitename.com/apoemid to view a particular poem you’ve bookmarked before.
  • d. Go to fancysitename.com/search to enter a word to search for in all the poems.

All the poems are stored as text fields in a database and referenced by a poem id. So the “apoemid” in step c will be the primary key of the tuple and I’ll just pull up the text after getting the key from the url.

Question:

    1. The poems exist nowhere except in a database. My webapp is literally 4 html files. Will this approach affect my search engine rankings?
    2. Is there a more efficient way to do ‘d’ rather than do a Select * on the db and manually parsing the text on the server? Each poem will be at the most 10 lines long, so I would imagine using a full text search engine like Lucerne will probably be overkill.

Caveat

I’m running this on the google app engine for now, so my database customization options are pretty limited. So while I’d certainly be interested in hearing about the ideal way to do this, this is a pet side project so my budget is limited 🙁

Thanks!

Edit: Apparently I don’t google so well at 7am. I’ve since found a solution for question 2 here so please disregard question 2.

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  1. Editorial Team

    AppEngine currently doesnt support full text indexing, they do have a better than nothing SearchableModel.

    Some details of SearchableModel can be found here:

    http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/f64eacbd31629668/8dac5499bd58a6b7?lnk=gst&q=searchablemodel

    Regarding search engine ranking, yes having all your poems in the datastore can affect your ranking. This is generally overcome through the use of a sitemap. Here is an article about how StackOverflow uses a sitemap to help its search ranking.

    http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001174.html

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