searching techniques

[Technapp Ad]

hi , i was just trying to develop an offline search engine, can u suggest any seaching technique (other than linear and binary search) for this purpose;
thx in advance;

[hamsterman]

That is a vague question. Where and what are you going to search for?

[helios]

Yeah, pretty much what hamsterman said.
The key to efficiently searching data isn't the search algorithm (it will almost invariably be a hash table or B-tree), but the indexing algorithm, and that depends on what type of data you're searching and what your search terms will be.
The way the index is stored greatly affects performance, as well.