Search engine for site?

[selaine]

I have absolutely no clue where to start and know virtually nothing about CGI, but wasn't sure what forum to post my question in. I'm wanting to create a search engine for our web site, but have never had one before and am not sure what would be the best approach. Does anyone have any recommendations? Thanks!

 

[footpad]

selaine,

If your site already appears on Google, then that may be the best place to start. They let site owners use their engine in exchange for placing ads on the search result pages. See

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

for details and directions.

If that doesn't work for you, there are a number of free search engines avilable, ranging from the simple to the complex. Here are a few links to start with:

-- NMS offers Simple Search at

http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/scripts.shtml

-- Perlfect is available at

http://www.perlfect.com/freescripts/search/

-- ht://Dig can be obtained from

http://www.htdig.org/

There are a many, many others available.

Hope this helps...

-- Lance

 

[siberian]

mnogo search is a nice tool that is very very comprehensive.

http://www.mnogosearch.com/

Its complex to set up but gives great indexed search ability.

 

[SirCharles]

We'd like to be able to search ms word, excell, word perfect, pdf, text, power point and regular html type of docs. What would recommendation be for this type of need?