Adding search to website
Hello,
Im new here but have been browsing this site for many months.Lots of great info!
Anyways i was wondering if anyone can help me out? Im trying to find out how to add a search box to my website for people to be able to search my site for certain info. Im not sure how to go about this. I found some software online but its not really what im looking for. If you have any info or where i could find some i would appreciate it.Thanks.
Busy posted this at 22:03 — 12th July 2004.
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If you site is set up using a database hotscripts.com is a place to try, if your site doesnt have a database them places like google and atomz.com offer a free (and paid) search function.
I use atomz on one of my sites and has been pretty good, one down side to using 3rd party search scripts if you have top or left navigation those links will be picked up before any content. (I moved my navigation to the right).
Anonymous posted this at 17:00 — 14th July 2004.
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hey, new here to the forum too, great stuff. anyway, i came across this today, it's google's free search box, that allows users to search the web, or your site and it's supposedly free! i haven't tried it out yet, but will probably muck around with it.
http://www.google.com/searchcode.html
if you get around to it before i do, let me know how it turns out!
sumeiko posted this at 22:56 — 14th July 2004.
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If you live in New Zealand, there will be an article in the NetGuide magazine next month about adding a search to your Web site.
Busy posted this at 02:15 — 15th July 2004.
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sumeiko, hope you included what so many people forget about - the navigation, and how it effects the results.
Markk posted this at 02:48 — 15th July 2004.
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Thanks for the replies, im currently looking into the google search box. Hopefully it will help me. It says people can search the web from your site and also just your site. I will update it decide to try it out and give my results.Thanks
vexcom posted this at 03:06 — 15th July 2004.
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Your pages must all be indexed by google for this to work, so if you want it to be current and thurough, you may want to try installing your own script. I was using this script from Matts script archive back in 1996 and it still worlks, just tweak it some, you can pick up the code pretty easily. Its in perl so it should be supported by 99.99999% of all web hosts
you can puruse it here http://www.scriptarchive.com/
Simple search is the one. Good luck
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karmaman posted this at 21:45 — 26th July 2004.
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Hi I have just seen this it may be what you are looking for http://www.bravenet.com/webtools/search2/index.php
Good luck
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