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How do I get a free site search engine for my site? Pages that link to <a href="https://ozoneasylum.com/backlink?for=5255" title="Pages that link to How do I get a free site search engine for my site?" rel="nofollow" >How do I get a free site search engine for my site?\

There are a range of solutions depending on your skills, hosting and available time.

The quickest and simplest solutions are external one's hosted by other companies but you should read their ToS as they often restrict the number of pages indexed and you may be allowing them to use your logo and name in future advertising (which wouldn't make a client pleased).

There are also solutions available for a variety of of server-side scripting languages (PHP, Perl, ASP or a mixture of them - usually different front ends to the same engine) as well as some Javascript solutions (although these tend to be a little limited).

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Relevant threads:

Site search engine

Site Search

Open Source Search Engines

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Relevant links:

Search Tools.com

Google directory

External

Google's SiteSearch - if you sign up to Google's WebSearch service you can also get them to search your site and host the results.

Atomz Express Search

Bravenet Web Site Search Engines - part of BarveNet's webmaster tools.

FusionBot's free Site Search Package

FreeFind.com

Google directory of hosted (external) search engines

Open Directory similar to the above

PHP

PhpDig - I (Emperor) researched a lot of PHP search engines for the Gurus Network redesign and only this script came up to the standard I wanted and it is easy to instal.

PHPSiteSearch/

Quick and Dirty Search Engine with PHP and MySQL - a good introduction.

Search This! - a more advanced tutorial on installing htDig for PHP.

Developing a Dynamic Document Search in PHP - good tutorial on this kind of thing.

Hotscripts.com directory

ScriptSearch.com directory

Perl

Simple Search

Hotscripts.com directory

ScriptSearch.com directory and here too

ASP

Site Search Engine

ASPSeek - can index up to 1 million URLs.

Hotscripts.com directory

ScriptSearch.com directory

JavaScript

JavaScript Source: Site Search

HotScripts

Mixed

ht://Dig - a popualr and powerful search engine (not for the beginner though)

mnoGoSearch.org - offers a free Unix search engine with Perl and PHP front ends.

Java

Nutch / Lucene - open source search engine systems

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