Posted By: theogray_com | Aug 23rd, 2004 @ 2:10 PM
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theogray_com
theogray_com
Madness is all in the mind

Over the past few years I've worked on a number of websites, but mainly they've only had a limited number of pages, and I've never needed a site search facility.

With two of my more recent projects that has all changed and they now have a lot of content in them that needs to be searchable by a user.

I could just use Google's free stuff, and that is one option, but I would much rather implement a search that returns results within the web's layout from across all the site's content; just like the Channel9 forum search does in fact.

So far I can see that Index Server is an option, but before I get into any depth on this, I'd prefer to know if there are any simpler/better options.

The sites in question are running on W2K IIS5, so I'd appreciate any pointers as to where to start looking to implement a decent site search facility.

kenfine
kenfine
heaven and earth
If your running MSFT SQL Server 2000, look at "Full Text Search". Awesomely fast, easy to implement with a SQL-like syntax, extensible in interesting ways as you get smarter. As a very newbie developer, I successfully implemented a number of search engines without knowing a whole lot. Microsoft's documentation for Full Text is excellent. 

If you aren't running SQL Server and you're looking for a back-end database system, might have a look. 

-KF  
theogray_com wrote:

Over the past few years I've worked on a number of websites, but mainly they've only had a limited number of pages, and I've never needed a site search facility.

With two of my more recent projects that has all changed and they now have a lot of content in them that needs to be searchable by a user.

I could just use Google's free stuff, and that is one option, but I would much rather implement a search that returns results within the web's layout from across all the site's content; just like the Channel9 forum search does in fact.

So far I can see that Index Server is an option, but before I get into any depth on this, I'd prefer to know if there are any simpler/better options.

The sites in question are running on W2K IIS5, so I'd appreciate any pointers as to where to start looking to implement a decent site search facility.



Indexing server is the easiest solution I guess but never used it, and I am not sure how flexible it is.

Good luck
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