[webproducers] Re: Site search?
- From: Justin Kim <jlkim@xxxxxxxx>
- To: webproducers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:50:43 -0400
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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