Which library to use in order to simulate Google s full text search in my Python project?

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I m working on a personal project to try to simulate a search engine, which uses PageRank algorithm and some sort of a full text phrase search (pretty much what Google does). I have contents of the web pages stored in a dictionary and I would like to index them based on some sort of match with a given phrase. Is there a recommended library which can do that? I found Elasticsearch and Whoosh, but I don t know enough about them to know if I ll be able to use them for my example. I need it to be usable in Python.

husoski · Answer

I don't know if this is helpful, but there's a free course at Udacity.com that has building a search engine (with PageRank algorithm) as it's course-long project.
https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-computer-science--cs101

It's rated at 3 months, but if you already code, and know enough Python for this project, you can spin through the videos in a week or two to get the new information.  I did just that a couple years ago before they added a little bit and expanded from the old 7 week estimate.

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