| Adding a search engine to your site
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DXL
msg:372182 | 3:59 am on Aug 18, 2005 (gmt 0) |
I have a site with over 100 pages, a few months ago I added a google bar that restricts results to pages found on my site. Its worked out really well. I'm about to launch a new site soon for a client that sells a variety of widgets created by 15 different manufucturers. Each Manufucturer will have their own page, each page may contain 5-200 widgets for sale, with specific widget names available. The site is in html, its not php-driven. What's a good search engine feature that I can add to the site for free or at a low cost? Google will need months to index the site, so a google search bar is out of the question (and a bit unprofessional for an e-commerce site, I would think). So if a visitor is looking for a special widget on the products page, what type of search form can I add to the site to get him/her to the exact page that carries what they need since the keywords appear on that page?
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buy_online
msg:372183 | 4:22 am on Aug 18, 2005 (gmt 0) |
You might try ht-Dig. (http://www.htdig.org). It's free, and has an unlimited indexing size. You'll need shell access to use it though, or an understanding and helpful tech-support at your web host. F
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DXL
msg:372184 | 4:31 am on Aug 18, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Looks pretty interesting. The company that hosts my site has hit-and-miss support reps. About 80% of the time I get guys with canned answers who don't understand what I'm tryint to do, but every once in a while I luck out and get someone familiar with what I'm trying to accomplish. I'll look into this more and see if it will work.
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ultimasurf
msg:372185 | 6:18 am on Aug 18, 2005 (gmt 0) |
ht://dig is a very good site search. Probably the pioneer in this field. Alternative to the one mentioned above is Perlfect Search. Perlfect Search is a sophisticated, powerful, versatile, customizable and effective site indexing/searching suite available under an open source license (GPL). It comes as a pair of distinct scripts. The indexer, that automatically scans and indexes a web site, and the search engine, a cgi script that serves search queries for keywords over the index, and displays results pages in html, in a standard format including title, description and relevance ranking for each matching document. Advanced features include stopwords, a potent exclude mechanism and a handy automatic installation and configuration utility.
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longen
msg:372186 | 6:43 am on Aug 18, 2005 (gmt 0) |
I used Freefind a few years ago before i switched to Google site search.
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