Can someone please tell how site specific searches are done. For example, search in the stackoverflow.com
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Can someone please tell how site specific searches are done. For example, search in
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Can someone please tell how site specific searches are done. For example, search in the stackoverflow.com
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The search here on Stackoverflow is, as I can recall, done using Lucene.
You build an index with details you want to search through and link these to the posts / other things you want the search to find.
More details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucene
They have used the SQL server search algorithm but were not really satisfied with it, if I remember correctly.
Here is the blog post by Jeff: https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/11/sql-2008-full-text-search-problems/