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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	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). -------------------------------------- Relevant threads: [URL=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Archives/Archive-000011/HTML/20011013-12-000199.html]Site search engine[/URL] [URL=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum12/HTML/000697.html]Site Search[/URL] [URL=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum12/HTML/000333.html]Open Source Search Engines[/URL] -------------------------------------- Relevant links: [URL=http://www.searchtools.com]Search Tools.com[/URL] [URL=http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Internet/Servers/Search/]Google directory[/URL] [b]External[/b] [URL=http://www.google.com/services/free.html]Google's SiteSearch[/URL] - if you sign up to Google's WebSearch service you can also get them to search your site and host the results. [URL=http://www.atomz.com/search/trial_account.htm]Atomz Express Search[/URL] [URL=http://www.bravenet.com/samples/searchengine.php]Bravenet Web Site Search Engines [/URL] - part of BarveNet's webmaster tools. [URL=http://www.fusionbot.com/free.htm]FusionBot's free Site Search Package[/URL] [URL=http://www.freefind.com]FreeFind.com[/URL] [URL=http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Internet/Site_Management/Hosted_Search/]Google directory of hosted (external) search engines[/URL] [URL=http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Internet/Site_Management/Hosted_Search/]Open Directory similar to the above[/URL] [b]PHP[/b] [URL=http://phpdig.toiletoine.net]PhpDig[/URL] - 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. [URL=http://php.warpedweb.net/sitesearch/]PHPSiteSearch/[/URL] [URL=http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/Search_Engine]Quick and Dirty Search Engine with PHP and MySQL[/URL] - a good introduction. [URL=http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/Search_This]Search This![/URL] - a more advanced tutorial on installing htDig for PHP. [url=http://www.devarticles.com/art/1/599]Developing a Dynamic Document Search in PHP[/url] - good tutorial on this kind of thing. [URL=http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Search_Engines/]Hotscripts.com directory[/URL] [URL=http://www.scriptsearch.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Searching/]ScriptSearch.com directory[/URL] [b]Perl[/b] [URL=http://www.scriptarchive.com/search.html]Simple Search[/URL] [URL=http://www.hotscripts.com/Perl/Scripts_and_Programs/Search_Engines/]Hotscripts.com directory[/URL] [URL=http://www.scriptsearch.com/Perl/Scripts_and_Programs/Search_Engines/]ScriptSearch.com directory[/URL] and [URL=http://www.scriptsearch.com/Perl/Scripts_and_Programs/Searching/]here too[/URL] [b]ASP[/b] [URL=http://www.webwizguide.com/asp/sample_scripts/site_search_script.asp]Site Search Engine[/URL] [URL=http://www.aspseek.org]ASPSeek[/URL] - can index up to 1 million URLs. [URL=http://www.hotscripts.com/ASP/Scripts_and_Components/Search_Engines/]Hotscripts.com directory[/URL] [URL=http://www.scriptsearch.com/ASP/Scripts_and_Components/Searching/]ScriptSearch.com directory[/URL] [b]JavaScript[/b] [url=http://javascript.internet.com/miscellaneous/site-search.html]JavaScript Source: Site Search[/url] [URL=http://www.hotscripts.com/JavaScript/Scripts_and_Programs/Searching/Site_Search/]HotScripts[/URL] [b]Mixed[/b] [URL=http://www.htdig.org]ht://Dig[/URL] - a popualr and powerful search engine (not for the beginner though) [URL=http://www.mnogosearch.org]mnoGoSearch.org[/URL] - offers a free Unix search engine with Perl and PHP front ends. [b]Java[/b] [url=http://nutch.org/]Nutch[/url] / [url=http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html]Lucene[/url] - open source search engine systems _____________________________ [internallink=4626]Emperor[/internallink] [small][i](Added by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Emperor]Emperor [/url] on Sun 01-Sep-2002)[/i][/small] [small][i](Edited by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Emperor]Emperor [/url] on Sun 01-Sep-2002)[/i][/small] [small][i](Edited by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Petskull]Petskull [/url] on Wed 18-Sep-2002)[/i][/small] [small][i](Edited by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Emperor]Emperor [/url] on Fri 04-Jul-2003)[/i][/small] [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/5575]reisio[/url] on 07-11-2006 13:13)[/small] Loading...
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