Website Search Software

Time to upgrade

[Edge]

I have been running FDSE for several years on my website. I'm quite happy with the product, results and cost. I have almost reached the practical limits of the cgi based search script.

I have been searching the net looking for a new product, which is scalable, does not cost $$$$, I control and own it, and I can customize the look.

I'm guessing I will need something mysql based.

Suggestions?

[bsterz]

I sure love htdig..

I don't know how well it scales but I have it on many sites - the biggest has about 30,000 spidered pages. It performs smashingly on these sites and is INCREDIBLY configurable.

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[Edge]

Would you mind stickying me a url so I can look at how it functions/looks?

Thanks,

[tsteves]

I have been using fdse for several years and I just can't get it going on new iis6 server.
I don't think htdig is for windows. Any others?

[maccas]

I am a big fan of RiSearch Pro, its perl and it is extremely fast.

[moltar]

I recently found a new approach.

As you may know, G and Y provide APIs for their search engine. You can write a quick script to pull the data from their database. You keep the load off your servers and get professional results.

I prefer Y over G, because G is limited to 1,000 queries/day. Y is limited to 1/sec, but it's not a hard (fixed) limit. As long as you play nice, they will not mind.