search engines

Molly

Anyone know how to make a search engine that works inside a website????

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Karla

If you want to build a homemade one you can write a little indexing script that creates a single file for a searching script to search through.

The indexing script could trawl through each page keeping a count of each word, then it writes the word and the number of occurances of that word to a file. Something like this:

@/wwwroot/foldername/index.html
word1::24
word2::18
word3::3
word4::25
.
.
.
@/wwwroot/foldername/sample.html
word1::14
.
.
etc.

The @ part is just the url of the file that contains the words.

All the search script has to do is open that index file and search that instead of searching every page. The index file only needs to be created everytime a new file is added to the site.

You could also create a list at the top of the index or even in the script itself of files that you want the indexer to ignore. And also words like 'the' etc.

Of course if you couldn't be bothered doing all that then take a look at Swish-E http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SWISH-E/

Karla