Best practices for adding search engine to site

[Eric Veltman]

Hello everyone,

I would like to know what you typically use to add a
search engine to your sites. Do you build your own
search engines, do you use existing PHP classes,
do you use htdig, etc. ?

My preference would be to use htdig, but on the htdig
site there's only a small list of hosting providers
that provide this and google doesn't help me too much
either. So I would also like to know your experience
about whether hosting providers normally offer htdig
or if it is an exception or if they do normally offer
it but always against a high price ?

Best regards,

Eric

[André Næss]

Eric Veltman:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I would like to know what you typically use to add a
> search engine to your sites. Do you build your own
> search engines, do you use existing PHP classes,
> do you use htdig, etc. ?
>
> My preference would be to use htdig, but on the htdig
> site there's only a small list of hosting providers
> that provide this and google doesn't help me too much
> either. So I would also like to know your experience
> about whether hosting providers normally offer htdig
> or if it is an exception or if they do normally offer
> it but always against a high price ?

Google. site:[url]www.example.com[/url] my search terms

André Næss

[Eto Demerzel]

In article <voi6ekaa1k5l90@corp.supernews.com>, Eric Veltman's output
was...

> Hello everyone,
>
> I would like to know what you typically use to add a
> search engine to your sites. Do you build your own
> search engines, do you use existing PHP classes,
> do you use htdig, etc. ?
>

No longer maintained, but: [url]http://phpdig.toiletoine.net/[/url]

Or, at the cost of having adverts in search result pages, you can use
freefind - [url]http://www.freefind.com/[/url]

Take a look at [url]http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/cover1.htm[/url] to see it being used,
and to see how it can be customis/zed.

[Eric Veltman]

Hello Andre,

André Næss wrote:

> Eric Veltman:

>> I would like to know what you typically use to add a
>> search engine to your sites. Do you build your own
>> search engines, do you use existing PHP classes,
>> do you use htdig, etc. ?

> Google. site:[url]www.example.com[/url] my search terms

I don't believe I didn't think of it myself :-)
Thanks, good suggestion !

Best regards,

Eric

[Eric Veltman]

Hello Eto,

Eto Demerzel wrote:

> In article <voi6ekaa1k5l90@corp.supernews.com>, Eric Veltman's output
> was...

>> I would like to know what you typically use to add a
>> search engine to your sites. Do you build your own
>> search engines, do you use existing PHP classes,
>> do you use htdig, etc. ?
>>

> No longer maintained, but: [url]http://phpdig.toiletoine.net/[/url]
>
> Or, at the cost of having adverts in search result pages, you can use
> freefind - [url]http://www.freefind.com/[/url]
>
> Take a look at [url]http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/cover1.htm[/url] to see it being used,
> and to see how it can be customis/zed.

Thanks, I think I'll try Google first, as Andre suggested,
but if I need more customized search and result pages,
I'll take a look at these alternatives.

Best regards,

Eric