search-engine

This is a basic search engine I made for my information retrieval class. It uses flex, a stopwords list, low frequency term filtering, a linear probing hash table for the map file, a linked list for the postings file, and an array accumulator. The weights use the formula: rtf * idf with log base 10.

Dependencies

• flex
• php
• gcc
• apache

Run

Native

1. install the dependencies
2. build and run the index and query files
3. setup the apache server

Docker or Podman

Docker

docker build -t search_image .
docker run -p 8080:80 --name search_container search_image

Podman

podman build -t search_image .
podman run -p 8080:80 --name search_container search_image