Evaluating 2 Site Search Options

Need a sounding board

[jerzgirl]

We are launching a small site (50 pages HTML and 200 pages PDF/PPT) and I want to implement a low cost but good value search engine. Not interested in displaying ads at all. Require daily or on-demand indexing, customized search page layout and relevancy/recency rankings.

It's down to Zoom from Wrensoft ($49 flat) and Google Site Search ($100 per year).

I like the pricing model for Zoom but the comfort of the big guerilla for support, etc.

Has anyone gone through this already? Have either of these tools?

[maximillianos]

I've used this product before... solid search engine with some good customization features. And it is free:

[omnifind.ibm.yahoo.net...]

It is a collaboration between Yahoo and IBM...

[old_expat]

A good, fast and free site SE is swish-e (.) org. Since it is written in C, someone has to undertake the installation process. It can be built at server level or in a directory.

[jerzgirl]

Thanks for your responses maximillianos and old_expat. It was time for me to stop researching and make a decision so I installed Zoom for $49. Am working with it on test site and hope to deploy it next week. So far no problems.

[maximillianos]

Good luck. Can't beat free though! (the Yahoo/IBM search engine is free)