Site Search?

[skafrk]

Hey
I want to create a site search so people can search for certain things on my site (ie. Band Names, Cd Names, Song Names) Is there any way to do this without have databases or anything like that. My site is completly basic and made with mostly HTML. Please let me know what I need to do this.
THANKS
Chris The SkaFreak!

[edited by: Woz at 3:42 am (utc) on April 15, 2003]
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[skafrk]

and if I most likely can't do this, please let me know!

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[TheOtherOne]

I ended up using one called ksearch. It's perl based, but no database is required or used.

If you look through a site like cgi-resources or php-resources you'll find lots of search indexing programs you can use.

[Woz]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld skafrk,

You could try one of the third party services such as Atomz and the likes. They seem to work pretty well.

Another option might be the Fluid Dynamic Search script. I have not used it myself but by all accounts it is one of the better ones.

Onya
Woz

[martinibuster]

Fluid Dynamic Search

I haven't heard of that one. I'm going to take a look.

I've used atomz, and it's very sophisticated... very nice.

[carfac]

I am an oldy on the web... and when I started running perl
scripts, there was just one plave to go. AND he has a search
script- one which I still use on a couple sites!

See Matt's Script Archive...

http: //www.scriptarchive.com/search.html

(Assume a link is OK as it is a free resource... snip if needed!)

dave

[mack]

FDSE
Best in it's range I have found. Will index up to about 10k of documents acording to the manual. I once had an index with 22k so I suppose it all comes down to your server performance.

Another good one is htdig. To run this you really need root access to your server.

Best free SE software I have found is probably Aspseek. very advanced but not at all easy to use.

[tedster]

You may find some value in this thread: Site Search - how to make it a total asset [webmasterworld.com]

I've wrestled with several site search utilities, and though it can be a nice feature, there are some pitfalls it helps to be aware of. In one case we removed the site search completely. In another we decided on switching to a paid solution that offered the ability to tweak our own algorithm. The cost involved in the switch was a lot less than in-house development would have been.

And in a third case, we went with a search link on each page, rather than having a search box appearing all the time.