rogerd - 2:26 pm on Jul 17, 2001 (gmt 0)

HI, kingkelly, I've not tried it, but Digital Windmill seems to have a free meta search feature. It looks like a pretty simple addition - you paste a javascript into your page that calls a script from their server. No idea how well this works, though. It's at [digitalwindmill.com....] (It's free, but the first three listings are "featured" sites that point to GoTo listings.) If you don't mind building their affiliate revenue, this could be a quick way to offer this function.

They also have an ODP directory that seems to work in about the same manner - a couple of lines of JS. It looks like a super-simple addition to a site. I just set up ODP++, and the Digital Windmill approach looks a heck of a lot faster, although perhaps with a little less control over results.

ODP++ lets you do a few cool things, like tie affiliate links (e.g., Amazon) to the selected category or search strings. On the other hand, you have to play with installing the scripts, modifying the templates, etc.

While we are on this topic, does anyone know of a way to include ODP info in a way that most spiders will follow? I doubt if they will like either DW's javascript or ODP++'s .cgi pages with query strings.