I'm currently writting a Job Borad and getting ready to work on the Keyword Search feature. The user can search by location - Country,State and or Job Category. Also I want the Keyword search feature but not the crappy ones on most sites. Ex. if i'm searching for a job as a nurse and there are any job postings for a Nursing Practitioner.. They will not show up. I want to write a search engine to catch everything. Nakirema
well, i guess i didn't really ask a question did I. I would like so tip and or direction on where to start.? What should I study up on to learn to do this? Nakirema
Study stemming at the very least so a search for 'nurse' also catches 'nursery' and 'nursing'. From there on you can add proper semantics in the mix so 'programmer' will catch 'coder' etc. You can use existing search engine technology as a basis, Orca is one of my favourites. Or Mercator: http://research.compaq.com/SRC/mercator/papers/www/paper.html Also read Google's white papers http://www.seoguide.org/se-patents-papers.htm for inspiration.
just a thought, you can also add recent searches (or/and most popular searches) to be displayed, that would make your se more interesting and .. well .. it would be cool