[thelist] Site search options

ben morrison morrison.ben at gmail.com
Mon Sep 18 09:44:19 CDT 2006


On 9/18/06, Randal Rust <randalrust at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a client that is interested in using Google Mini to drive their
> site's search function. The cost is something like 2,000 USD, and I'd
> like to see if I can save them some money with an alternative.
>
> I can write a search function easily enough that can find matches
> within the database, but they need something that will spider and
> index their PDF files as well.

We use htdig for most of our sites, which indexes pdfs, word docs,
does matches for similar spellings:

http://www.poptech.coop/Templates/Internal.asp?config=poptech&Search=True&NodeID=89147&words=images

http://www.htdig.org/

ben



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