site search engine

I just read in "what we hate on the web"
http://www.lowendmac.com/musings/02/0528.html that a site search engine is
liked by more people than I would have thought. Does anyone have
recommendations for one that is free or darn close to free, easy to install
and works well?

I still think that's what a site map is for...

Chris Watson a.k.a. "The Bicycling Guitarist"
www.TheBicyclingGuitarist.net/

Previously in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.site-design, The Bicycling
Guitarist <Chris (AT) TheBicyclingGuitarist (DOT) net> said:

a site search engine is
liked by more people than I would have thought.

Depends on the size of the site.

Does anyone have
recommendations for one that is free or darn close to free, easy to install
and works well?

http://www.google.com
http://www.atomz.com

--
Mark Parnell
http://www.clarkecomputers.com.au

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 01:06:59 GMT, The Bicycling Guitarist
<Chris (AT) TheBicyclingGuitarist (DOT) net> wrote:

I just read in "what we hate on the web"
http://www.lowendmac.com/musings/02/0528.html that a site search engine
is liked by more people than I would have thought. Does anyone have
recommendations for one that is free or darn close to free, easy to
install and works well?

I still think that's what a site map is for...

Chris Watson a.k.a. "The Bicycling Guitarist"
www.TheBicyclingGuitarist.net/

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

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:27:57 -0500, Neal <neal413 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 01:06:59 GMT, The Bicycling Guitarist
Chris (AT) TheBicyclingGuitarist (DOT) net> wrote:

I just read in "what we hate on the web"
http://www.lowendmac.com/musings/02/0528.html that a site search engine
is liked by more people than I would have thought. Does anyone have
recommendations for one that is free or darn close to free, easy to
install and works well?

I still think that's what a site map is for...

Chris Watson a.k.a. "The Bicycling Guitarist"
www.TheBicyclingGuitarist.net/


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

.... and BTW, the code they provide is awful. I re-wrote it to be XHTML
1.0 Strict at http://opro.org/googlesearch.html, so you can feel free to
steal that.

"Neal" <neal413 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:27:57 -0500, Neal <neal413 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:
See http://www.google.com/searchcode.html

... and BTW, the code they provide is awful. I re-wrote it to be XHTML 1.0
Strict at http://opro.org/googlesearch.html, so you can feel free to

I did, lol. Thanks again. I now have a "search" button on my home page
www.TheBicyclingGuitarist.net . I'm thinking of putting the "search" link in
front of the "site map" link on the navbars on most of the other site pages,
example www.TheBicyclingGuitairist.net/schwinn/

"The Bicycling Guitarist" <Chris (AT) TheBicyclingGuitarist (DOT) net> wrote

a site search engine is

I have a link to the "search" page from my home page. Is it a good idea to
have the link to search from EVERY site page, or is that way overkill? I
already have a link to the site map on every page, and a link back to the
home page too.
www.TheBicyclingGuitarist.net (home page)
www.TheBicyclingGuitarist.net/schwinn/ (example of "search" link added to
another page's nav bar)
www.TheBicyclingGuitarist.net/ranchero/ (example of a page without the extra
search bar link added yet)

"Neal" <neal413 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:27:57 -0500, Neal <neal413 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 01:06:59 GMT, The Bicycling Guitarist
Chris (AT) TheBicyclingGuitarist (DOT) net> wrote:

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

... and BTW, the code they provide is awful. I re-wrote it to be XHTML 1.0
Strict at http://opro.org/googlesearch.html, so you can feel free to

When I used the code I pinched from you the search engine works half-fast on
my site, that is, not too swift. It can find results for a site search for
"red baron" but not for "michelle reeves" so there's something screwy going
on.
Also, when I went to the google site to register my site to see what would
happen, I got the following result after entering my domain (I tried several
forms, with and without the www., all lowercase, etc.)
Google sez:
There are no pages in our index for "thebicyclingguitarist.net" We cannot
perform SiteSearch on this domain(s).
Bummer.

The Bicycling Guitarist wrote:

When I used the code I pinched from you

.... which is precisely the code Google tells us to use, translated into
valid XHTML...

the search engine works half-fast on my site, that is, not too swift. It
can find results for a site search for "red baron" but not for "michelle
reeves" so there's something screwy going on.

I can't explain. Perhaps Google has yet to index the pages in question.

Also, when I went to the google site to register my site to see what
would happen, I got the following result after entering my domain (I
tried several forms, with and without the www., all lowercase, etc.)

Where did you go to register your site? The free Site Search requires no
signup.

Google sez:
There are no pages in our index for "thebicyclingguitarist.net" We
cannot perform SiteSearch on this domain(s).
Bummer.

Can't explain without more info. I have discovered no issues with Google
Search.

"Neal" <neal413 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

The Bicycling Guitarist wrote:

When I used the code I pinched from you

... which is precisely the code Google tells us to use, translated into
valid XHTML...
I can't explain. Perhaps Google has yet to index the pages in question.

It might have something to do that I am for now still hosted on that windows

IIS/5.0 server that might not be configured properly. I don't know... When I
followed the buttons for a free upgrade of the free code, I reached a point
where I got that message from Google that says "You do not exist according
to Google's internet-ional law."

The Bicycling Guitarist wrote:

"The Bicycling Guitarist" <Chris (AT) TheBicyclingGuitarist (DOT) net> wrote in
message news:T0Ukd.40895$QJ3.6132 (AT) newssvr21 (DOT) news.prodigy.com...
a site search engine is

I have a link to the "search" page from my home page. Is it a good idea
to have the link to search from EVERY site page, or is that way
overkill? I already have a link to the site map on every page, and a
link back to the home page too.

Makes sense. If a user is lost and looking for something they could be
on any page. I provide such links (although not a site map yet) on my
site - see sig.

My search engine is hand-crafted PHP, as I store my content in a
database so searching is easy. It's not bulletproof but works quite
well, and I've been surprised how many people have used it (ie >0).

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Mark.
http://tranchant.plus.com/