Search engine question 2

[tunnel]

Hi,

I'm a newbie at Dreamweaver and was hoping someone may help me with a question I have.

I am a teacher and am looking to build a site for my students that is searchable. Basically I want my students to go to my site enter their search criteria eg The third Reich. I want the sites to be ones i have aleady included in my site (indexing?) as there are many sites out there I don't want them to see. Each indexed site should be included as part of my website.

When they search I want a list of sites to appear with links that will take them straight to that site.

I will want to expand the number of sites in the future to include geography, economics etc.

What would be the best way to set this up?

 

[ptco]

http://www.freefind.com/

Is a search engine that gives you the option to spider only your web pages and display those results using a easy cut and paste java code, you can even tell it how often you want it to spider, and it's free...just a suggestion

 

[Cheech]

As I see it, the freefind option would only search your own pages, not the sites you have "included"

The way you could achieve this would be to have your own database of search elements that would include links to the relevant sites.

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[tunnel]

Thanks for the replies Ptco and Cheech. When I set up my site do I need to have a separate page for every link? (might need 1000 pages?) For example if I want a link to aussiehistory.com do I have a separate page for this site with a brief explanation of what is on this site? If I do it this way the search engine will list the page on my site and the link will take them to this page not directly to the site. What I am looking for is a link that will take them directly to the site.

Gee I don't think I've explained myself very well. Anybody understand what I mean?

 

[Cheech]

In my option you would add all of the site information into a field in a database, this would include metatag information and anything else you wish for the user to "get a result" on then the URL for the site in another field. Now when the user searches you use the URL as a link when their search criterea is matched.

Cheech

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[tunnel]

Now, about setting up a database....lol

Thanks Cheech, I like the sound of that. I've got a bit of reading to do I think.

 

[tunnel]

Cheech,

What database would you suggest I go with. I do not have webhosting yet so I am flexible in that way.

cheers

 

[Cheech]

I would advise MySQL or if the host supports it and you have access yourself go for SQL

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