Search Engine Recommedations anyone?

[Chris]

I'm working on a large intranet site (650+ docs) and we would like to have a
search engine. We are using PHP & MySQL (of course we also are running
Perl), and it would be nice if it could search the db description & title
fields as well as the document tree. Most of the scripts I've seen aren't
very robust ("no more than 50 docs", etc.), and I'm concerned about using
the Google site search because the documents are confidential and I don't
want the links or data to end up in a commercial db somewhere.

I could probably write one myself, but that would take a lot of time since
I'm new at PHP, and rusty on Perl & Javascript (been away from coding for a
couple years). Plus...who wants to reinvent the wheel? Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Chris

[Colin McKinnon]

Chris wrote:

I'm working on a large intranet site (650+ docs) and we would like to have
a
search engine.

Large? You need to get out more Chris.

MnoGo (formerly udmsearch)

C.

[Chris]

Ok - point well taken- but the largest site I've worked on by myself - it's
only a team site, not the whole intranet. Nonetheless, many basic scripts
I've seen seem to only be able to handle less than 50 pages, and the Perl
scripts that can handle more seem to only have instructions for setting up
on Unix. Although the site may be deployed on Unix/Linux, my test server is
Win2003, so not sure if I should go the route of Perl...may end up with
conflicts on deployment.

I did just find one called "Perlfect Search" which states that it is
compatible with both. It's free and open source.
http://www.perlfect.com/freescripts/search/
Chris

"Colin McKinnon"
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Chris wrote:

I'm working on a large intranet site (650+ docs) and we would like to
have
a
search engine.

Large? You need to get out more Chris.

MnoGo (formerly udmsearch)

C.