[thelist] What's the best site search solution?

[Anthony Baker]

Tracy,

I have a couple of questions that would support in getting a
the answer you look for:

 (1) How large is your company, and what is their budget?

 (2) How large is the set of documents that you wish to
     index?

 (3) What kind of files will you be indexing? HTML? PDF?
     Images? Audio/Video?


Depending on your needs, I do enjoy Atomz search application.
It allows you to search multiple document formats, you can
customize the hell out of the UI used for the search and results
screens. This includes either creating your own description of
the resulting files (using META data), or simply having it grab
an excerpt from the resulting file.

Atomz is free for smaller document sets, but there is a fee if
your sets get above a certain number of docs -- don't recall
offhand what that is, however.

  www.atomz.com


Cheers,

Anthony


----- Original Message -----
From: "TRACY HERBECK" <tracyh at mid.org>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 10:35 AM
Subject: [thelist] What's the best site search solution?


> Hi all...
>
> The organization I work for is looking for a solution to add search
> capability to our site.  I have been asked to research possible options
> so I am asking you to give me some feedback on it.  What search
> solutions are you all using?  Do you have suggestions/opinions on the
> best way to search and index content or maybe some advice on what to
> avoid?
>
> Thank you!
> Tracy
>
> Tracy Herbeck
> Content Web Developer
> Modesto Irrigation District
> http://www.mid.org/
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