Providing a seach for my site

[Modica82]

Hi All,

Not sure this is the right forum, i want to create a simple search for my HTML pages, but not use the google site search facility, i want to create my own. I have written many search routines, but all have been dynamic database driven searches, i am a bit confused on how i can create a search facility for static HTML pages.

Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

Rob

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http://www.thatssolastseason.co.uk

 

[dwarfthrower]

It's a bit out of scope for this forum, but I'd look into any of the many open source search engines available.

Short answer is you can't write a search engine in HTML/CSS.

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[Vragabond]

Not much we can help you here -- you will need to ask this question in a forum dedicated to the server-side language you will be using to power the search.

 

[Stretchwickster]

Have a look at this link for utilising Google's free web search facility:

http://www.google.com/searchcode.html

Clive

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[Modica82]

THanks for the repsponces, i did think it was out of scope for the section, but gave it a shot. Looks like google is the way, thanks again!

Rob

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[mkrausnick]

I use a search engine from freefind.com. It's very light, and if you pay the $60 a year royalty, there's no advertising at all.

If you don't, I think there's only a small banner at the bottom of the search results window (I think, I can't remember for sure) - much less obtrusive than google.

It crawls your site on a schedule you define, and sends you weekly and monthly reports of search activity - most used keywords, searches per day, etc.

You can see it implemented at

http://www.st-raymond-dublin.org.

Mike Krausnick
Dublin, California