I want to search something in two sites in Bing. Like:
site:xing.com OR site:linkedin.com Jack Hone
But i get null result. In Google it works, but not in Bing.
What is the problem in Bing? Is my syntax false?
This would work :
(site:xing.com || site:linkedin.com) Jack Hone
Just use parentheses for proper grouping:
(site:xing.com OR site:linkedin.com) Jack Hone
You may want to look at the search syntax:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff795667.aspx
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I'm trying to search for strings with wildcard letters. For example, "te*t" should return both the results for test and tent (and text etc.) Google doesn't seem to have a built-in function that accomplishes this. Is it possible with an API or something? Are there alternatives to Google for this for full texts? Like searching "Y*s *e c**" and getting "Yes we can" and all other results that fit?
https://www.wordsmyth.net/?mode=browse This site has that feature but only for words, I'm looking to do the same thing with Google or Bing or any other search engine
Sorry if this has been asked before, thank you in advance.
I'm trying to do a wildcard search on Wikipedia but the search is not behaving the way the instructions say it should. Here's the advanced search help page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Advanced_search
As an example, it says this regarding a Wildcard search:
the query *stan will match Kazakhstan or Afghanistan or Stan Kenton.
However, when I attempt to do that search (or even click on the embedded link to that search), I only get
the page *stan does not exist
and it just lists a bunch of "Stan" entries starting with "Stan Laurel filmography."
Why would this feature not work? Am I missing something?
It does work, however because direct matches for "stan" are scored higher than words with it, Kazakhstan is waaaay down in results. You can try slightly narrowing the results with intitle:*stan however this is still bad. However, a quick check with k*stan shows that it works.
Conclusion: user-written help page has a bad example.
I want to search some URL within my company's web site, and with at least one "get" parameter.
Something like http://www.mysite.com/info.php?id=212
So, there should be a ? symbol in it.
However, I tried to use
site:.mysite.com filetype:php inurl:?
And got so many pages without any GET parameter, why does the inurl:? not work?
As you can see here http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2466433:
Generally, most punctuation and special characters are ignored in Google Search.
That includes the question mark, and that's why your search doesn't work.
We runnig site-s with EE 1.6.8... Not funny, but my boss like it...
So we implemented a search. Everything is fine but the search url is like this:
/search/results/0374c6c40f159934bc6795f031c4e52f10/
instead
/search/results/keyword
The developers said, that only a paid plugin can we put the keyword in the url.
OMG.
Is it true?
And another Q: after few hours the search url give no results back. It seems, that the session of the cookie expired or anything.
I have two ideas:
1. Our developers want to fool me
2. EE is so, it's not a cms just a cms like thing...
You are correct, the EE Search module uses session-based URLs for results. The reason being that search results are cached for performance, so those results need to expire after a short period of time (as new results might need to appear).
I assume what you want is bookmarkable search results. In this case, I suggest Super Search, or on the free, Google-powered end, the Google Search Results plugin.
Not 100% sure if it would work but in theory you could have www.example.com/search/results/keyword .
In your EE code you would put {exp:weblog:entries search:body="{segment_3}"}title:{title} etc..{/exp:channel:enties} as shown on http://expressionengine.com/legacy_docs/modules/weblog/parameters.html#par_search
The problem is when the keyword contains non [a-z][0-9] characters which is worth considering.
We offer EvoPost on our website for free http://www.eevolution.co.uk/index.php/addons/evopost which will enable you to capture the keywords from a HTTP POST variable e.g. search:body="{ep_txtboxname}"
Feel free to contact us through our website if you need any assistance with the product.
Thanks
Tim
EEvolution Developer
I have a list of URLs and am trying to collect their "descriptions." By description I mean what comes up, for example, if you Googled the link. For example, http://stackoverflow.com">Google: http://stackoverflow.com shows the description as
A language-independent collaboratively
edited question and answer site for
programmers. Questions and answers
displayed by user votes and tags.
This the data I'm trying to accumulate for the URLs I have.
I tried parsing the URL's meta-descriptions, however most of them are lacking a meta-description (yet Google and other search engines manage to get a description somehow).
Any ideas? Should I just "google" each link and scrape the data? I have a feeling Google wouldn't like this...
Thanks guys.
Different search engines have different algorithms to get the description out of the page if/when they are lacking the description meta tag. Some ignore the tag even it it's there.
If you want the description Google has, the most accurate way to get it would be to scrape it. Otherwise, you could write your own or look around on the web for code that does it.
These are called snippets.
Google use proprietary (and possibly patented) methods to garner this information, so there is no simple answer.
As you suggest, they will use meta-description information if it is there. (How to set the meta-information to help Google.)
They will also honour requests from the page authors to NOT include snippets. (How to prevent Google from displaying snippets) You should probably respect this too (as well as robots.txt, of course.)
You may have some luck with existing auto-summary packages, such as OTS.
You may want to check AboutUs.org (i.e. http://www.aboutus.org/StackOverflow.com).
But, there's little chance that the site will have an aboutus page and not have a meta description.
Some info that might explain how google does this:
Webmasters/Site owners Help
Adding a URL to google
I am not familiar with Google APIs, but perhaps there is an official way to get such information.
Interesting. some sources are better than others.
For "audiotuts.com" google has a worse description than AboutUs.com.
Google
Nov 18th in General by Joel Falconer ·
1. Recently, an AUDIOTUTS reader asked me about creative process. While this
is a topic that can’t be made into a
...
AboutUs.com:
AUDIOTUTS is a blog/tutorial site for
musicians, producers and audio
junkies! It is the sister site of the
popular PSDTUTS, VECTORTUTS and
NETTUTS.
I hate problems like these... they should be trivial but they aren't!
If you can assume English content, you can first look for Meta Description, and if that doesn't work, you can look for the first two or three sentence-like word sequences.
A product I worked on looked for the first P or DIV that contained more than one sequence of > n "words" delimited by periods. It would use the two or three sentence-like sequences, up to x total words, as a summary paragraph. It wasn't 100% accurate, but good enough for the average case. The number of words was adjusted a few times to eliminate things like navigation elements.