hai for All......
just wanna ask .....
how to develop...or build search engine for website using "CGI/PERL".......i honestly never use this b4..even make website too..so it's quite hard 4 me..to do so..

so..for anyone who knows....pls help meeeee...

I guess you have to learn basic HTML, Javasciript first before talking about building a search engine :->

no you don't need javascript.

with perl, you have tremendous power of analyzing chunks of text data. it's very easy to extricate data and match patterns.

step one, design a database architecture. this depends on how big, how many fields, what kind of data. for something very simple, all you need is one text file. if you have a very large amount of data, you divide it up, for example, one file each for a-z. if you are matching several expressions, you make it relational, with multiple files.

step two, write a script to enter data into the database, and edit, and delete.

step three, write a script to extricate data from the database. this is your search engines... for example, user searches for "apple", the script goes to file a.txt and looks for pple.

that's it... i guess you need to know some programming

actually in your case, you are just searching thru html files, if there's not that many, skip the database, you can search on the fly. make your script go through each file every time someone searches... might be a bit slow if you have 1000+ files.

References:
-- Free Site Search Engine CGI Scripts: let your visitors search your web site (thefreecountry.com)
-- perl.com: Building a Vector Space Search Engine in Perl
-- perl.com: Designing a Search Engine
-- Perl Crawler Search Engine - To find the information on Perl and CGI programming, look no further.
-- A List Apart: Articles: Build a Search Engine in PERL
-- A Simple Web Site Search Facility