The EggnChips development is getting underway. The first part of the project is to build a simple keyword search engine.
In this project a form will be presented the user with a familiar text input box followed by a button for performing a search. To make the system usable and to provide a mechanism for comparison several other buttons will be in operation to redirect searches to other reference sites.
Upon a user entering a keyword and clicking on the search button, a simple lookup will be made in a back-end database against the keyword and the matching results presented.
The next step will be to enable the use of multiple keywords in an and/or mechanism. Simply entering two keywords will give assume an OR whilst prefixing each keywords with a plus symbol will force an ADD decision to be made. Enclosing a series of keywords in quotes will turn the keywords into a phrase entity which will itself become a keyword for search purposes.
In order to conduct a search the back-end database will be populated with a number of popular web site address URL together with the site Title, Description and Keyword Tags. A facility to add a URL to the database will be added in the next phase.
At present the form is working together with the alternate buttons however the back-end database has yet to be populated. This will be performed over the next few weeks.
The project progress can be viewed at http://www.eggnchips.com and is always to be considered a ‘work in progress’.