<opinions>
If it is a small web site, then you are free to use Perl scripts like
"webglimpse"
They work pretty good. If you are looking for a professional web site search
engine, then try products like (AltaVista search engine) rated as one of the
good search engines or Excite. Both products are available as off the shelf
products. If you try to develop an equivalent search engine, then the time
and money spent on developing one, will be more then buying these products
and use them directly. Not that no one can develop equivalent products, but
it's better to buy off the shelf products for these options, "Printing
solutions, Standalone Applications Deployment , Search Engines"
</opinions>
Thanks
Sudhir
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http://www.javacommerce.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: Searching Meta Tags
> On 6 May 00, at 14:20, abhishek shodhan wrote:
>
> I think there are several applications out there that do this for you
> already. Do a web search or look on Gamelan or similar Java
> repositories. That's easier than writing your own.
>
> > Hi all...
> >
> > I need to develop a search servlet that will search for content
both in
> > my site and outside. How do I search the Meta Tags of pages?
> You'll need to obtain a java class that can parse HTML. Then you'll
> simply need to look for when you crawl across a meta-tag.
>
> Unless your organization has a strict policy for how it defines meta-
> tag information, meta-tags are likely to be useless for you. Just
> simply having them there doesn't gurantee success. And I'd
> imagine that 90% or more of your site doesn't even have any real
> meta-tags (e.g. meta-tags populated with information besides the
> content-generator information that standard Web development tools
> like FrontPage put in an HTML page for you).
>
> Building a search engine is non-trivial. Sure any Java programmer
> worth 1/4 of their salary can figure out how to retrieve a Web page
> and then parse the HTML and through that stuff into a database for
> searching. But devloping true search engine requires much more
> skill than that. That's why I would advise you to look into an
> existing package, preferablly one that has been worked by
> information professionals (e.g. people with library science training).
> > And, for the rest of the web, do I need to tie up with Major Search
> > Engines???
> That would be much easier (and cheaper) than trying to build your
> own Web crawler that crawls the entire Internet.
>
> Mark
> >
> > Please advise me.
> >
> > Thanks!!
> >
> > Abhishek Shodhan.
> >
> >
> >
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