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Adding search functionality to your site
As your site grows in pages, so does the time required for
visitors to locate specific information on it. While it's obvious to most
the benefits of extending a site with search functionality, the ease in
which this could be done may not be. Below we examine your options, some as
easy to implement as 123!
Resource list updated Dec 4th, 05'
Hosted Search Services
For the non technical, or those stuck with a technically
limiting server (ie: no CGI support), the road to embark on for search
capability is a third party service. By merely pasting a few lines of HTML
code onto the site, the rest is handled by a magic genie that comes out
nightly from the code- crawling the site, indexing it, and making the
results accessible to your visitors. Ok ok, maybe something a little less
spectacular. Whatever it is that comes out, below lists its sources:
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FreeFind free to commercial
This is the only free search service we could find that
doesn't put a cap on the # of pages crawled. Business
version available for increased functionality.
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SiteLevel
free to commercial
This is what we use here on JavaScript Kit. SiteLevel is
free for sites with less than 1000 pages. We've found the results
generated by this service to by very accurate. Recommended.
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Easy Site Search
free to commercial
Another free site search service.
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Master.com
free to commercial
Master.com offers a suite of "plugin" services for your
site, including site search, for free.
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Pico Search free
Enable your website visitors to search your own site. No software
download needed. On-line setup.
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Fusion Bot
free to commercial
FusionBot enables anyone to configure a search engine for their website
in minutes, without the need to install any software. Offer customized
site search, site map, and reporting solutions for your website.
Let's move on to explore doing the grunt work yourself.
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