[thelist] Local search engine for a website
Tony Crockford
tonyc at boldfish.co.uk
Thu Jul 1 16:52:12 CDT 2004
At 22:37 on Thursday, 01 Jul 2004, Amy Johnson wrote:
> Thanks for the recommendations. I now know a little more about what
> this company needs. They would like a search mechanism that would work
> on the web site containing 1000's of files and also on a CD that
> contains all the same files. I'm thinking that none of the following
> search engines would work on a CD since they seem to mostly be web
> scripts that require Perl interpreters, databases, etc. Am I right?
Pretty much.
You'll need to create an index of the files on the CD and have a Java
applet or javascript search tool some such read the index for searches.
You could have a different search engine doing the same job on the web
site.
here's an option:
http://www.phdcc.com/spy-cd/features.htm
or maybe this:
http://www.xtreeme.com/search-engine-studio/
there are many more, do a google for "offline search engine"
hth
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