Full Text search index of website? how?

[cgchris99]

How do I create a full Text search of an entire website. Most pages will be static but some are dynamic.

They also want to be able to re-index at their leasure.

Thanks for any info

[ppg]

You could install the fluid dynamics search, its perl based, easy to install and you can re-index whenever you want.

A search on google will turn it up.

I've come accross others, but I've only used that one. Its nice and very customisable. If thats a word.

[gangstah]

If your server is in house and you're running Windows you could use Index Server.

[Imaster]

If you are on linux, and have your own server, then go in for Aspseek at aspseek.org

Nothing compares the efficiency, power, and speed of the search engine :)

[killroy]

I've written my own. Took a lot of research into linguistics and IR papers. It'll bemuch longer then an of the shelf search, but it'll do whatever you want it to. If you're interested I'll outline the steps involved.

SN

[Imaster]

Take killroy seriously. When he says, he means it :) I loved his killroys's adsense calculator :)

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Aug 2, 2003

The "site search" feature is something that I would like to be able to do too. Regarding web programming, all I know is HTML and the smallest bit of CSS - no Perl, no ASP, no CGI, nothing else at all.

Killroy - is your search feature easy enough for someone having the aforementioned skills to implement? If so, I am interested.
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[killroy]

Hmm, I'm afraid not. You'll have to do theprogramming. I basically did it from first principles, was an increadible learning experience for sure, but I had to get me hands greasy in the mechanics (Must've mixed at least 3 or 4 programming languages, and I ain't talking html or css ;).

If you're not into programming or don't have a programmer hand you'll be best of with an off the shelf solution. I wish I had all the time in the world, then I'd write a first-principles primer to get others interested started... well I still might....

SN