Search Engine Web Application

This is a search engine web application built using Flask that allows searching over 56,000 websites.

Features

• Comprehensive Search: Search across a vast database of 56,000 University of California, Irvine webpages.
• User-Friendly Interface: Intuitive and easy-to-use interface for efficient searching.
• Fast and Reliable: Optimized for quick and accurate search results.
• Document Indexing: Indexes documents and creates an inverted index for efficient search retrieval.
• Summarized Results: Retrieves document summaries using the OpenAI API for quick content insights.

Installation

1. Clone this repository to your local machine:

 git clone <repository_url>

2. Install the required dependencies:

pip install Flask

pip install beautifulsoup4

3. Create inverse index for the search engine :

python app.py index

4. Run the application:

python app.py

Usage

1. Visit http://localhost:5000/ in your web browser.
2. Enter a search query in the input field and click on the Search button.
3. The top five search results will be displayed along with the time taken for the query.

File Structure

• app.py: Contains the Flask application code.
• engine.py: Contains the engine and indexer classes.
• templates/index.html: HTML template for the user interface.