[webproducers] Re: Site search?

ok, that greatly simplifies the requirements.

unless the traffic is expected to be heavy, you can probably get away
with a CGI script that does index-based or even brute force searching.

or, there are numerous PHP scripts that will do indexing and brute
force searching on static pages with good results.

in case you don't know - an index is a "snapshot" database of the
site's current content that is used by a search engine to do the
searching on. using an index is much more efficient and faster as a
site grows.

brute force searching simply scans every page of the site for specific
keywords or phrases. it's not recommended for large sites for
performance reasons but works fine for 40 pages.


--- Justin Kim <jlkim@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
>       Nothing fancy is needed - the site is (will be) almost 
> entirely static html.  It's a small brand awareness site, so not many
> 
> pages (maybe 40).
> 
> 
> 
> At 7:14 AM -0700 7/14/05, Ari Feldman wrote:
> >there are tons of things to consider but let's consider the basics:
> >
> >1) is the site static or dynamically generated? if the latter, you
> will
> >need to build or integrate a tool that can search the site's content
> >db.
> >
> >2) do you need any special search functionality? by that i mean, do
> you
> >need to search web pages or assets like PDFs, MS office docs, etc.
> >
> >3) how sophisticated will the search need to be? will it do simple
> >keyword or phrase matching? will it need to do more sophisticated
> >searches like wildcards, AND, OR, etc.?
> >
> >4) performance: how big is the site? are you tied to a specific
> >architecture that dictates a search engine written in C++ over one
> >written in Perl?
> >
> >5) budget: there are open source solutions and commercial solutions.
> >the commercial solutions can do everything but aren't cheap. the
> open
> >source solutions are free but need a lot of configuring to get
> working
> >right.
> >
> >--- Justin Kim <jlkim@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>    Hey, everyone.  In a little of a bind and could use some
> >>  advice  I'm being asked to recommend a site search solution for a
> >>  client.  This will be for a relatively small brand awareness site
> >>  mainly composed of html pages.
> >>
> >>    Since the client is a large company, using something like the
> >>  free Google site search widget probably won't go over well.  I've
> >>  asked the client if they have anything in-house we could use, but
> I
> >>  suspect the answer will be either "don't know, don't know who to
> ask"
> >>
> >>  or simply "no".
> >>
> >>    Unfortunately, the last time I had to deal with something
> >>  like this was about 10 years ago, so I'm woefully behind the
> times on
> >>
> >>  this.  Any help is greatly appreciated!
> >>
> >>  Justin
> >>
> >>
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