Internal search facility setup?

I want to add an internal search facility to my website. I have seen a
couple of client-side JavaScript solutions, which do exactly what I want,
the problem is, they don't work if Scripting is turned of on the Browser.

So does anyone know of an off the shelf server solution or have any
tips/idea on how to setup a server side search facility on my site.

Just to clarify, I do not want to search the internet from my site IOW I do
**not** want to integrate Google into one of my pages. I simply want my
visitors easily find what they want within my site.

Thanks,

Paul

Paul H wrote

> I want to add an internal search facility to my website. I have seen a
> couple of client-side JavaScript solutions, which do exactly what I
> want, the problem is, they don't work if Scripting is turned of on the
> Browser.
>
> So does anyone know of an off the shelf server solution or have any
> tips/idea on how to setup a server side search facility on my site.
>
> Just to clarify, I do not want to search the internet from my site IOW
> I do **not** want to integrate Google into one of my pages. I simply
> want my visitors easily find what they want within my site.

My tip would be to serve your website content from a database, and offer
a search box to query the database.

--
Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com

In: <HIs6e.17573$il.7693@newsfe5-win.ntli.net>, "Paul H" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>I want to add an internal search facility to my website. I have seen a
>couple of client-side JavaScript solutions, which do exactly what I want,
>the problem is, they don't work if Scripting is turned of on the Browser.
>
>So does anyone know of an off the shelf server solution or have any
>tips/idea on how to setup a server side search facility on my site.
>
>Just to clarify, I do not want to search the internet from my site IOW I do
>**not** want to integrate Google into one of my pages. I simply want my
>visitors easily find what they want within my site.

Server side search engines:

Do a search for swish-e, it is free. Very good search tool.

htdig is also nice.

I use swish-e on my site. (As someone who has written inverted index search
tools before, I can appreciate the level of difficulties where phrase matching
and/or proximity is involved. swish-e handles this nicely.

I use swish-e on my internal servers too. (Alas, it's an ancient machine so
I run out of memory if I'm not careful) Anyhow, it'll handle hundreds of
thousands of documents.

Unfortunately, from what I've seen, not too many people use my search box. :-(

Jamie
--
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Paul H wrote:
> I want to add an internal search facility to my website. I have seen a
> couple of client-side JavaScript solutions, which do exactly what I
> want, the problem is, they don't work if Scripting is turned of on
> the Browser.
> So does anyone know of an off the shelf server solution or have any
> tips/idea on how to setup a server side search facility on my site.
>
> Just to clarify, I do not want to search the internet from my site
> IOW I do **not** want to integrate Google into one of my pages. I
> simply want my visitors easily find what they want within my site.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul

Googles Adsense/Web Search thing offers a search your site option... But I
doubt you want that...

--
Viper
Are you seeking revenge?
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Paul H wrote:
> I want to add an internal search facility to my website. I have seen a
> couple of client-side JavaScript solutions, which do exactly what I want,
> the problem is, they don't work if Scripting is turned of on the Browser.
>
> So does anyone know of an off the shelf server solution or have any
> tips/idea on how to setup a server side search facility on my site.
>
> Just to clarify, I do not want to search the internet from my site IOW I do
> **not** want to integrate Google into one of my pages. I simply want my
> visitors easily find what they want within my site.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
>

What language - I know a few ... btw putting all your conten in a
database can be a very bad idea unless you have the resources to do it.

(PHP / ASP / .net etc..)

webwizguide.co.uk has one solution - alternatively if you want something
that integrates nicely with your site, easy to customise is free but
does contain adverts - Atomz.com is superb, it IS however off site ...
but much much better than most scripts.

G

Gerry for email use my name at dergal dt com wrote:

>
> webwizguide.co.uk has one solution - alternatively if you want something
> that integrates nicely with your site, easy to customise is free but
> does contain adverts - Atomz.com is superb, it IS however off site ...
> but much much better than most scripts.
>
> G
Another offsite solution I have used in the past is www.freefind.com,
which offers site searching from free upwards through various price bands.
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