Hi. When you have a web search engine, like yahoo or google do you need a database to store all entires?

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Are you talking about searching just your site or searching the web?

A database is generally going to be the preferred option, but if you're only searching a small amount of pages you can set up a text file or an xml file or something other than a database to record the data.

On the scale of Google and Yahoo it's more like a whole lot of databases.

I'd imagine Google, Yahoo etc have warehouses of databases XD Creating your own search engine is a fairly stupid idea, first off there are already way too many out there (certainly to compete against) and secondly I'd like to see anyone try and make their own search engine - doesn't seem like an easy task in any way.

But if you want to search your own website google have a tool that allows you to search your site and the web too. But you can get scripts to search your site only if need be.

thanks for the help guys

Hi!

Yes! Many many many databases are used to store the indexed data!

...and creating a search engine is not all that difficult.... it takes some time to learn how they work, but that are very doable.

I just launched one actually... its not google or yahoo... but its a pretty good start

http://www.businessesforsalerss.com/

Please let me know if you have any more questions about this topic... its very interesting.

thanks