Hi,

 

I was wondering whether anyone on the list had some strong opinions on
decent site search (e.g. Search this site) tools.

 

The way I see it, there's two options, a hosted search provider (such as
Google or Quintura), or a search tool that sits on your web host
alongside your website and indexes things for you.

 

The problem with a hosted search provider is that you have less control
over how often your site is indexed (Google XML sitemaps and their
equivalents go some way to mitigating this).  I've through the Google
documentation and they don't give you many guarantees about how often
your site would be indexed.  "Within 5 minutes of new content appearing
on the site" doesn't appear to be an option.

 

If you're going to create your own search tool, you'd use something like
Swish-E or Lucene, but what if your client's site is on a shared hosting
environment, and that's unlikely to change?  I've see there's a few
PHP-based spidering tools but has anyone seen any that they'd recommend?

 

Cheers,

Matt.

 

 



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