Integrating a search in an intranet

[skiflyer]

Just wondering if anyone knows a good way to integrate a search engine behind a firewall and on an intranet.

Basically like those google bars that say "search this site only"

I know google has a hardware solution, but am afraid it might be a bit pricey, anyone know of other routes I may be able to take?

-Rob

 

[GUJUm0deL]

skiflyer, maybe you can use the Coldfusion Vertity feature...but to do that your intranet must have some kind of a server set up...
Maybe ASP or PHP can help...

Forget the Nobel Peace prize, I just want to take over the world!!

 

[skiflyer]

I have a server setup, a few in fact. Mostly I'd be happy if I could just crawl one or two of them and the documents posted on them (html, doc, pdf).

PHP is already going, and it's an Apache server, which kind of makes me want to avoid ASP.

-Rob

 

[GUJUm0deL]

skiflyer, hmmmm i'm not too good with PHP so all I can say Coldfusion Verity might help you out...
All coldfusion does is read the database and return whatever it matches with the user's query, kinda like what happens on google.com search

Forget the Nobel Peace prize, I just want to take over the world!!

 

[skiflyer]

I could write such a function very easily, -if- I had a database. The part I really need is the part that crawls the pages, looks -in- the document, and then populates said database.

I wrote one last year, which works great, but it isn't much of a crawler (can handle recursing through a directory, but won't crawl over links), and doesn't know how to read PDF and DOC files... the real limitation keeping me from dusting it off and offering it to these people.

Thanks for the ideas though, any others?

-Rob