Hi, at the moment i'm building my first site. At first i though i can build my own search engine but after i ask my friend, who's program coder. He told me that is very hard to build my own search engine and you must have a staff to keep your search engine update at all time and is easier to use google search engine and install it in to my site. So i been doing some research and i found tons of site using google or bing search engine instead of building their own. For example, mashable,ehow,techcrunch,aol,etc.....soo i would like to know it's really that hard to build my own?? and do i need to keep it update at all time?? cant we program to let them update my them self?? also this site will be maintenance only by me not as big organization, and if it impossible to make it my self Can google search be customize like vimeo.com search engine? I try to do it like them. I think their search engine is pretty cool and they separate clearly in each section like video,group,people,etc cause my site is similar to them but notthing to do with the video sharing. Thanks again. Also sorry with my grammar, im not english native speaker but im trying my best and sorry if i asked some stupid question im really new with the building site kind of thing ....i would be very appreciate if someone can help me with these question. Thank you.
There are different complexities of search engines, google etc are advanced, and can sort the results and rank them easily... that said, a simple sql query can perform a basic search.. ie.. .SELECT * FROM content_pages WHERE page_text LIKE '%keywords%'.... although you probably want to break that down into a LIKE statement for each word..