Blog Search Engine (Series) Posts 📝
Below is a list of my blog posts in the Blog Search Engine (Series) category.
How my search engine direct answers work
NB: Since writing this post, I have moved my blog search engine into IndieWeb Search. The functionality should be similar but not exactly the same. With that said, the logic below is still accurate and I hope will be interesting to you.
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Building a random Aeropress recipe generator for my search engine
Back when I was working on my thermal printer project, I decided to build a random Aeropress recipe generator. The idea was that I would get a new Aeropress recipe in print every morning so that I could push myself when I was brewing. Truthfully, I didn’t use the feature much because I was quite stubborn about using recipes I had refined through practice. However, I like the idea. Embracing randomness pushes one out of their comfort zone.
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Weighing search results on my personal search engine
As you might know, Google weighs various factors when ranking a web page to certain extents. Factors like whether a keyword is in a title are a strong indicator that the article is likely to be relevant to a target keyword. Thus, that article will be considered more relevant than, say, an article that only mentions the keyword once or twice. I will leave the exact logic behind Google to people who know more about this topic than I.
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How my blog search engine works, briefly
I have been building a search engine for my blog. The search engine is designed to make it easy to find content on my blog. I started with a simple program that indexed content so I could keep track of my posts. I built a web interface to query the index so anyone could find search results. Then I started to add more features to make the search engine more intuitive and better at discovering content. This has been such a fun project to work on because I have had to spend a lot of time planning technical solutions and then I have implemented them, two tasks I enjoy.
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Implementing TextRank on my blog search engine
The goal of my blog search engine is to make content as easy to find on my website as possible. Before the latest update, you could use my search engine to find a page based on a term that appeared either in the URL, meta description, or title of a page. However, I kept thinking about how I could enhance the search engine to make content even easier to find. Since I started thinking about this, I have looked at my search engine and made a number of improvements. Most improvements are related to either code efficiency or content discovery. In this article, I’ll share a bit about how I implemented TextRank on my site.
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Building a search engine for my blog: Part II
I recently launched a search engine for my blog, allowing visitors to find pages on my website. The search engine lets you search through page
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Building a search engine for my blog
TL;DR: I now have a search engine on my blog at search.jamesg.blog. Check it out!
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