This tutorial discusses creating an advanced fuzzy search engine using PHP and a database. The tutorial uses the example of a wiki application, but the concepts can easily be applied to other applications in different languages.
The right search engine on your website won't bring you more traffic but it will help your visitors to better locate things so it will keep them on your pages. A good search engine implemented can increase your hits with almost 30% and this is tested. I'm not talking just to have a tutorial.
In this tutorials, we are going to learn how to let users search your site, without building a search engine. This can be useful if your pages are all html, or you do not have the time to build your own website search engine. This won't work unless your pages are indexed by google, if they're not, you can go to here to add them to googles index.
Learn how to install a simple search on your site. It will scan a database of your choice for the related keywords that you want to search on. Lets begin!!
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