Best practices for adding search engine to site

Hello everyone,

I would like to know what you typically use to add a
search engine to your sites. Do you build your own
search engines, do you use existing PHP classes,
do you use htdig, etc. ?

My preference would be to use htdig, but on the htdig
site there's only a small list of hosting providers
that provide this and google doesn't help me too much
either. So I would also like to know your experience
about whether hosting providers normally offer htdig
or if it is an exception or if they do normally offer
it but always against a high price ?

Best regards,

Eric

Eric Veltman:
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> Hello everyone,
>
> I would like to know what you typically use to add a
> search engine to your sites. Do you build your own
> search engines, do you use existing PHP classes,
> do you use htdig, etc. ?
>
> My preference would be to use htdig, but on the htdig
> site there's only a small list of hosting providers
> that provide this and google doesn't help me too much
> either. So I would also like to know your experience
> about whether hosting providers normally offer htdig
> or if it is an exception or if they do normally offer
> it but always against a high price ?[/color]

Google. site:www.example.com my search terms

André Næss

In article <voi6ekaa1k5l90@corp.supernews.com>, Eric Veltman's output
was...[color=blue]
> Hello everyone,
>
> I would like to know what you typically use to add a
> search engine to your sites. Do you build your own
> search engines, do you use existing PHP classes,
> do you use htdig, etc. ?
>[/color]
No longer maintained, but: http://phpdig.toiletoine.net/

Or, at the cost of having adverts in search result pages, you can use
freefind - http://www.freefind.com/

Take a look at http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/cover1.htm to see it being used,
and to see how it can be customis/zed.

Hello Andre,

André Næss wrote:
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> Eric Veltman:[/color]
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>> I would like to know what you typically use to add a
>> search engine to your sites. Do you build your own
>> search engines, do you use existing PHP classes,
>> do you use htdig, etc. ?[/color][/color]
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> Google. site:www.example.com my search terms[/color]

I don't believe I didn't think of it myself :-)
Thanks, good suggestion !

Best regards,

Eric

Hello Eto,

Eto Demerzel wrote:
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> In article <voi6ekaa1k5l90@corp.supernews.com>, Eric Veltman's output
> was...[/color]
[color=blue][color=green]
>> I would like to know what you typically use to add a
>> search engine to your sites. Do you build your own
>> search engines, do you use existing PHP classes,
>> do you use htdig, etc. ?
>>[/color]
> No longer maintained, but: http://phpdig.toiletoine.net/
>
> Or, at the cost of having adverts in search result pages, you can use
> freefind - http://www.freefind.com/
>
> Take a look at http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/cover1.htm to see it being used,
> and to see how it can be customis/zed.[/color]

Thanks, I think I'll try Google first, as Andre suggested,
but if I need more customized search and result pages,
I'll take a look at these alternatives.

Best regards,

Eric