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  • 08-01-2003 1:44pm
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    RicardoSmith
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    Just wondering if anyone has used an easy to configue and install site search application, or managed service, which is capable of indexing a standard hard coded HTML website (would be cool if it could also handle PDFs)


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    Kali
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    Whats the host O/S?

    If its a *nix machine try htdig, I find it works quite well.


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    jmcc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,412 ✭✭✭jmcc


    Originally posted by RicardoSmith
    Just wondering if anyone has used an easy to configue and install site search application, or managed service, which is capable of indexing a standard hard coded HTML website (would be cool if it could also handle PDFs)

    Google indexes PDFs and also offers a site search.

    If it is less than 50-100 pages including PDFs, it may not be worth the hassle. I think that htdig is part of either the Gnome or KDE documentation installation on Linux. However It really does depend on the scale of the site that you want to index.

    Regards..jmcc
    (I don't do search engines for sites - I only do countries. ;) )


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    peterd
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    http://www.atomz.com/search/trial_account.htm - Sign up for a free trial account if the site has less then 500 pages.


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    RicardoSmith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,264 ✭✭✭RicardoSmith


    Thanks for that...


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