1 General Description: This is an personal search engine developed with C++. And used some feature of boost, like asio, tokenizer, serialization. This search engin support some simple but important features like pages crawling, posting index establishing and key word querying. And I also specially developed a simple and reliable thread pool which is class template supporting different types of jobs. More features will developed in the future, as I learn more on search engine and related natural language processing.

2 Files Description:

PART I. Source files of the thread pool, crawler and Indexer. --ThreadPool.h --ThreadPool.cpp --Crawler.h --Crawler.cpp --Indexer.h --Indexer.cpp

PART II Test example files of the thread pool, crawler and Indexer. --ThreadPoolTest.cpp --CrawlerTest.cpp --IndexerTest.cpp

PART III Executable binary files. If you have not installed the needed boost library, it may not run as expected. --CrawlerTest --IndexerTest

PART IV Output files of the crawler and indexer during run. Including a depository of pages crawled from www.boost.org, serialized posting index(.idx) and doc set(.dst). --Sat_Aug_24_15_48_12_2013_crawled --Sat_Aug_31_21_02_09_2013_indexed.idx --Sat_Aug_31_21_02_09_2013_indexed.dst

3 Build Description: Because this program used some feature of boost, like asio, tokenizer, serialization. So if you want to build the source code you may need install a boost library first. The boost version used in the developing is 1.54.0. Here just give the simple g++ command line when build the three examples for reference.

//ThreadPoolTest.cpp g++ ThreadPool.h ThreadPoolTest.cpp -o ThreadPoolTest -lpthread

//Note that threadPool.h is not a ordinary header file. It's a combination source file of class template.

//CrawlerTest.cpp g++ Crawler.cpp CrawlerTest.cpp -o CrawlerTest -lpthread -lboost_system -lboost_regex -lboost_exception -lboost_thread

//IndexerTest.cpp g++ Indexer.cpp IndexerTest.cpp -o IndexerTest -lboost_serialization