How To Build a Search Engine With Bubble (like google)

As my first template i wanted to do a proof of concept and see if Bubble could replicate the Google search engine we all know and love. Both from a design standpoint as well as a functionality/UI standpoint.

Here is the template:

ADMIN AREA: add /admin to the url and login/signup to add listings to the searchable database.

It’s for sale for $9 mostly because it took me so long to complete.

I was able to replicate the basic look/feel of google as well as the functionality of the search input box on homepage, etc

Of course the ALGORITHM google uses is probably way more complex but again this is just a proof of concept hehe.

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Sorry here is the correct link to Bubble Search Engine template: https://bubble.io/template/bubble-search-engine-1498101895747x484343538541396000

When I click preview it says it hasnt been deployed yet.

add /version-test to the URL

Sorry not sure if I should deploy this? or does it matter?

i am looking to employ a search into my app, is it possible to strip this down to just a search box that shows search results in a group or page?

i think a lot of people on bubble are looking for a proper working search box since the ones right now only have an exact match function that only gives search results that exactly match the typed text, it seems that you found a way to have the search show relevant results (instead of exact match), which is what everyone is looking for.

but i wonder if theres a way to strip your template down to what i need.

so dollar brings up relevant results for dollar, but i tried typing other things in and it didnt give me any results, is this currently only searching amongst data you have for the template?
i would need the search box to search for posts made by other users, like in twitter or facebook.

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I have shown you how to do this on the other thread.

forgot to add this admin login hehe. it lets you add listings to the search.

I made a search bar and trying to search a video but it shows up when i click enter nothing happens I have the page for this video how do I make it so you click enter and you go to the page I made?

Hi @NigelG I’d be very interested to see this thread can you post it so I can check it out?

As am I.

@NigelG Please post a link to this other thread.

Really?

Will have a dig in the archives :slight_smile:

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It is something a few of us still use, where we wan’t to search for words across multiple linked things. So you create (using a database trigger) a list of text tags for searching. And CBA to use Algolia.

Note the linked thread is from ages ago, so there may well be different ways to split text into words now.