Let’s start building a machine that can download the entire web. I’m going to a build a web crawler that iteratively works its way through the web like this: 1. Start at a known URL 2. Download the page 3. Make a note of a… See more

Now that I know some URLs, I can download the pages they point to. I’ll create a Background Task that churns through my URL listmaking requests: Because it’s a Background Task, I can fire off a crawler and downlo… See more

Time to implement search. I’ve thrown together the classic “input box and button” UI using the drag-and-drop editor.There’s also a Data Gridfor listing the results, which gives me pagination for free.Each result will contain the … See more

For each stage in its development, I’m going to run three queries to see how the results improve as I improve my rankingsystem. Each query is chosen to reflect a different type of search problem. I’ll only look a… See more