What search engine scripts do you use?

[bobnew32]

What php/mysql scripts do you use for your "site search" and who made them, or did you design them yourself? I have been developing a really great site, and dont wanna restructure it for "optimization", but just asking, what do you guys use?

[AmericanBulldog]

I have used the free service provided by Atomz and found it to be quite good.

[jeremy goodrich]

there is one by fluid dynamics ( the one used here ) that has a 'shareware' or 'freeware' option, I think for non commercial sites.

Works well. There is also perlfect, which is another written in Perl. and phpdig, which is a php site search engine.

Used most of the above. Depends on what your requirements are. The free stuff can work, as well, as long as you don't mind giving them a bit of free branding.

ack, the only one above that fits is phpdig (i think) and one called rutersearch, don't know if it's still available. :)

[mat]

phpdig (i think)

... probably you mean htdig (.org). Not pretty out of the box, and the documentation isn't great, but it works well, very quickly, is free and you can pretty it up.

[dreamcatcher]

I use the Zoom search engine, a free PHP script that works superbly. You can add custom meta tags to make the search of your pages more detailed and it indexes everything off line, which makes the results appear a little quicker.

http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom.htm

:)

[jeremy goodrich]

mat, actually, I did mean phpdig. :) the other one is a c monster - I don't know C, so I've never tried that one. But they have some modules that are cool.

Here is a link for phpdig (not affiliated)
[phpdig.toiletoine.net...]

Though last time i tried out their sample search, their index was too slow for the size of their database...perhaps it's better now?

But for me, if the search engine needs to handle a good number of docs, it's all about speed.

[brotherhood of LAN]

>FDSE

There's an option on that to use mySQL instead of the flatfiles too, handy if you prefer working with mySQL.

PHP also has something compiled in it called mngosearch (?) that uses alot of PHP's capabilities.

They must have knew the site search engine situ when they made PHP ;)