Richard, I've built quite a few search engines in CF and always used TeleportPro from TenMax.com . They have a range of models from $40 on up depending on the size of your crawl. Their support is first rate.
Another appealing option that I've had friends report positively on is a web service that does the crawling for you - www.80legs.com . What they're doing looks simply amazing and it's fairly inexpensive as well. The actual indexing part is fairly easy to do with CF and Verity or Lucene. For retrieval and entry into the database you are going to have to become good a regular expressions which CF also supports. Rick On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Richard Steele <[email protected]> wrote: > > What is the best third party crawler to use for creating indexes of > keywords from image websites? Preferably, it would go through all pages of > certain image oriented websites and look for website title, alt tags, meta > tags, titles of images, descriptive texts, etc., retrieve the information, > and enter it into a sql db. > > Any ideas, tutorials, expertise would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:329269 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
