Query Results sent from search engines CGI variable?

2010-06-01 Thread UXB Internet
of other items from their site matching an internal search result using that criteria. I know that many search engines send the original search query over to the website I am assuming in the header because I can obtain that information from the web-server log reports. What I don't know

RE: Query Results sent from search engines CGI variable?

2010-06-01 Thread Che Vilnonis
-talk Subject: Query Results sent from search engines CGI variable? I have a client who wants to make their site more user friendly when someone is sent to them from a search engine. What they want is when someone comes from a search engine link that we obtain the original search query (if sent

RE: Query Results sent from search engines CGI variable?

2010-06-01 Thread Justin Scott
What I don't know is if it is available in the CGI variables Cold Fusion can get from IIS6. The few times I've had to do this I parsed out the original query from the CGI.HTTP_Referer variable (URL string of the page that linked to yours). The format is slightly different depending on which

Re: Query Results sent from search engines CGI variable?

2010-06-01 Thread Barney Boisvert
the requested page present a list of other items from their site matching an internal search result using that criteria. I know that many search engines send the original search query over to the website I am assuming in the header because I can obtain that information from the web-server log

Re: Query Results sent from search engines CGI variable?

2010-06-01 Thread Wil Genovese
present a list of other items from their site matching an internal search result using that criteria. I know that many search engines send the original search query over to the website I am assuming in the header because I can obtain that information from the web-server log reports. What I don't

Anyone using CF for ranking websites on search engines?

2010-01-08 Thread Rick Faircloth
Hi, all. I've been using Advanced Web Ranking for a few years, and while it works well, I'd like to expand on its capabilities, well, its output, anyway. I was wondering if anyone has been using CF to rank websites according to keywords/keyphrases, particularly on Google, Yahoo, and

application.log, search engines and url variables...

2007-10-24 Thread Michael Appenzellar
I am having some instability issues with my coldFusion server. What I think is happening is that search enginge bots are going through pages that require a variable for example but being it doesn't have it, it creates an error that say ID isn't defined for example. This fills up application.log

application.log, search engines and url variables...

2007-10-24 Thread Mike Appenzellar
I am having some instability issues with my coldFusion server. What I think is happening is that search enginge bots are going through pages that require a variable for example but being it doesn't have it, it creates an error that say ID isn't defined for example. This fills up

application.log, search engines, and variables

2007-10-24 Thread Mike Appenzellar
I am having some instability issues with my coldFusion server. What I think is happening is that search enginge bots are going through pages that require a variable for example but being it doesn't have it, it creates an error that say ID isn't defined for example. This fills up application.log

OT: Search Engines the indexing of javascript popup windows

2007-01-05 Thread Che Vilnonis
Example URL: http://www.karatekorner.com/dsp_LargeImage.cfm?imagename=217272lproducttitl e=Adidas%20Merrit%20Sling I have popup windows on my site that display large product photos that have been indexed by search engines. The thing is, when a customer is refered by a search engine by one

RE: Search Engines the indexing of javascript popup windows

2007-01-05 Thread Dave Watts
I have popup windows on my site that display large product photos that have been indexed by search engines. The thing is, when a customer is refered by a search engine by one of these indexed popup windows pages, the page does not 'render' like a pop up window if the customer was already

RE: Search Engines the indexing of javascript popup windows

2007-01-05 Thread Che Vilnonis
Dave, the JS function to launch the new window is below. Would might code look like on the popup (child) page to do this? I'm not a JS pro by any means. Thanks, Che. script language=JavaScript function NewWindow(mypage, myname, w, h, scroll) { var winl = (screen.width - w) / 2; var wint =

RE: Search Engines the indexing of javascript popup windows

2007-01-05 Thread Dave Watts
Dave, the JS function to launch the new window is below. Would might code look like on the popup (child) page to do this? I'm not a JS pro by any means. Thanks, Che. The code would depend on what exactly you want as a result, of course, but if you just wanted to conditionally hide the close

RE: Search Engines the indexing of javascript popup windows

2007-01-05 Thread Che Vilnonis
12:42 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Search Engines the indexing of javascript popup windows Dave, the JS function to launch the new window is below. Would might code look like on the popup (child) page to do this? I'm not a JS pro by any means. Thanks, Che. The code would depend on what exactly

RE: Search Engines the indexing of javascript popup windows

2007-01-05 Thread Dave Watts
Hmmm, I should have been more specific. How about... if window opener is defined show page as a normal popup if not redirect to a a specific page. say www.domain.com You could simply replace the contents of the conditional block with whatever you want to do: if (!window.opener)

RE: Search Engines the indexing of javascript popup windows

2007-01-05 Thread Che Vilnonis
Dave, using your code, what I have below works in Firefox, but not IE. Any ideas? Thanks a bunch, Che. script language=JavaScript!-- if (!window.opener) { document.write('a href=\http://www.mydomain.com\;span style=\font-family: Verdana; font-weight: Bold;\Purchase This Product at

RE: Search Engines the indexing of javascript popup windows

2007-01-05 Thread Dave Watts
Dave, using your code, what I have below works in Firefox, but not IE. Any ideas? Thanks a bunch, Che. script language=JavaScript!-- if (!window.opener) { document.write('a href=\http://www.mydomain.com\;span style=\font-family: Verdana; font-weight: Bold;\Purchase This Product at

RE: Search Engines the indexing of javascript popup windows

2007-01-05 Thread Che Vilnonis
://www.shaftek.org/blog/archives/000300.html ~Che -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 3:57 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Search Engines the indexing of javascript popup windows Dave, using your code, what I have below works in Firefox

RE: Search Engines the indexing of javascript popup windows

2007-01-05 Thread Dave Watts
The problem is that in IE, I still get the Close Window button on the indexed popup page that comes from Google instead of getting the hyperlink to purchase it from 'MyDomain.com'. I'll try removing the escape slashes. An explicit comparison would probably work in both, then: if

RE: Search Engines the indexing of javascript popup windows

2007-01-05 Thread Che Vilnonis
Nope. Oh well, it seems to work in all browsers except IE. That's better than where I was before. Thanks for your help. ~Che -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 4:21 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Search Engines the indexing

RE: Search Engines the indexing of javascript popup windows

2007-01-05 Thread Dave Watts
Nope. Oh well, it seems to work in all browsers except IE. This will work in both IE7 and Firefox: if (window.opener == null || window.opener == undefined) ... Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized

RE: Search Engines the indexing of javascript popup windows

2007-01-05 Thread Che Vilnonis
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 5:01 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Search Engines the indexing of javascript popup windows Nope. Oh well, it seems to work in all browsers except IE. This will work in both IE7 and Firefox: if (window.opener == null || window.opener == undefined) ... Dave

Should I submit a website with 2 languages twice to search engines?

2006-03-08 Thread Baz
Should I submit a website with 2 languages twice to search engines, once for each language? i.e. - www.domain.com - www.domain.com?lang=fr What about to DMOZ and other such directories? They have different categories for non-english sites... Cheers, Baz

Re: Should I submit a website with 2 languages twice to search engines?

2006-03-08 Thread Bryan Stevenson
- www.domain.com?lang=fr that URL may get ignored as it's a dynamic page (the ? tells the bots this). I'd suggest a mod/isapi rewrite to adjust your URL to something like www.domain.com/lang/fr I'm not sure you need to submit once for each language (I would think not), but just wanted to let

Re: Should I submit a website with 2 languages twice to search engines?

2006-03-08 Thread Robert Everland III
Well there are 2 options you can do. Do a subdomain for each language. http://french.domain.com etc... , or just have a link with the flags of the different countries so a user can choose a different language. The bots should follow the links. I wouldn't worry too much about them not following

Re: Should I submit a website with 2 languages twice to search engines?

2006-03-08 Thread Ray Champagne
This may well start a big war here, but are dynamic URLs really a big problem anymore for todays modern search engine? I have no evidence either way, but it seems to me that they must have come up with some kind of a workaround by now Bryan Stevenson wrote: - www.domain.com?lang=fr

RE: Should I submit a website with 2 languages twice to search engines?

2006-03-08 Thread Ian Skinner
This may well start a big war here, but are dynamic URLs really a big problem anymore for todays modern search engine? I have no evidence either way, but it seems to me that they must have come up with some kind of a workaround by now It is my understanding that the big search engines

Re: Should I submit a website with 2 languages twice to search engines?

2006-03-08 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
Well there are 2 options you can do. Do a subdomain for each language. http://french.domain.com etc... , or just have a link with the flags of the different countries so a user can choose a different language. The bots should follow the links. I wouldn't worry too much about them not

Re: Should I submit a website with 2 languages twice to search engines?

2006-03-08 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
Yep, Google indexes them pretty exactly the same as sites with SES url's... which is why I'm glad I never bothered with the whole SES url nonsense... A whole lot of hair-pulling for bupkiss. Plus if you want SES url's, use mod rewrite or isapi rewrite. It's infinitely easier to implement it there

RE: Should I submit a website with 2 languages twice to search engines?

2006-03-08 Thread Baz
Thanks for all the tips... it was my understanding too that search engines play nice with URL vars - I'm not too sure why SES safe URLs are still being talked about so often. Also, just to be sure, I should translate all META keywords and descriptions to each language, correct? You can have more

Re: Should I submit a website with 2 languages twice to search engines?

2006-03-08 Thread Claude Schneegans
that URL may get ignored as it's a dynamic page If it was so, almost all CF pages would be ignored. What is ignored are pages called from forms, because they will certainly cause an error if no field are filled. As far as there is a link from one language to another, both languages should be

Re: Should I submit a website with 2 languages twice to search engines?

2006-03-08 Thread Robert Everland III
It is recommended to make each page including the meta tags be specfic to the page's content. Do not spam the meta tags with a bunch of keywords. Just put the main keywords and description to be things that describe the content of the page. Bob

Re: Should I submit a website with 2 languages twice to search engines?

2006-03-08 Thread Claude Schneegans
Thus things like should work, but there may be a limit on how many combinations are considered. a href=www.adomain.com/catalog.cfm?item=0203color=red As far as all the combinations are present in the page under the form of a valid link. I do not see why robots will ignore them. After all, what

Re: Should I submit a website with 2 languages twice to search engines?

2006-03-08 Thread Paul Hastings
Robert Everland III wrote: Well there are 2 options you can do. Do a subdomain for each language. http://french.domain.com etc... , or just have a link with the flags of the different countries so a user can choose a different language. The bots no. never flags. don't scale will eventually

Fusebox Conf interview 8: Search engines, Managing your career, FLiP Challenge

2005-09-22 Thread Michael Smith
In this issue of ColdFusion conference and training news: 1. Fusebox and Frameworks Conference News - win a gig memory stick TODAY 2. Class and certification news 3. Optimizing FuseBox Applications for Search Engines interview with Jon Rowny 4. Managing Your Career as a Developer interview

Search engines and CF

2005-06-03 Thread Protoculture
Are there any best practices for search engine optimization when using coldfusion? What we are currently doing is setting up a site map of sorts that interlinks our database of job types with a customized page. Essentially what the intention here is that search engines will index these pages

RE: Search engines and CF

2005-06-03 Thread Kerry
To: CF-Talk Subject: Search engines and CF Are there any best practices for search engine optimization when using coldfusion? What we are currently doing is setting up a site map of sorts that interlinks our database of job types with a customized page. Essentially what the intention here

RE: Search engines and CF

2005-06-03 Thread Protoculture
job of that type, then google will see that the page has changed, keep re-indexing it, and through that, re-index your customised pages. -Original Message- From: Protoculture [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 June 2005 14:22 To: CF-Talk Subject: Search engines and CF Are there any

RE: Search engines and CF

2005-06-03 Thread Kerry
yep. -Original Message- From: Protoculture [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 June 2005 16:07 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Search engines and CF Hey Kerry, so what you are saying is that changing the order of the links on the site map will signal to google that the page has changed

Re: search engines

2005-04-05 Thread Marty Johll
] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 5:15 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: search engines Someone brought up serving up different content to a bot then to the viewers as being a viable solution but wordpress just found out the hard way thats not the way to go. Google officials declined to comment

Re: search engines

2005-04-05 Thread Marty Johll
, April 04, 2005 5:15 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: search engines Someone brought up serving up different content to a bot then to the viewers as being a viable solution but wordpress just found out the hard way thats not the way to go. Google officials declined to comment on why

RE: search engines

2005-04-05 Thread Rick Faircloth
that question... Rick -Original Message- From: Marty Johll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 9:39 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: search engines For more information, here's a slashdot article: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/31/196220tid=217 On Apr 4, 2005 4

(OT) RE: search engines

2005-04-05 Thread Rick Faircloth
, April 05, 2005 9:45 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: search engines Oh, and one other where Google punished an internal (Adwords) unit for doing serving up different content to the bot vs user: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1774677,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K594 Marty On Apr 5, 2005 8:39 AM

RE: search engines

2005-04-04 Thread dave
Someone brought up serving up different content to a bot then to the viewers as being a viable solution but wordpress just found out the hard way thats not the way to go. Google officials declined to comment on why WordPress.org pages had dropped from the company's index, but its Webmaster

RE: search engines

2005-04-04 Thread Rick Faircloth
Good to knowthanks for the heads up, Dave! Rick -Original Message- From: dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 5:15 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: search engines Someone brought up serving up different content to a bot then to the viewers as being a viable

How to remove dynamic content from search engines?

2005-02-03 Thread Jim McAtee
What are some strategies for removing references to old dynamically generated pages from search engine indexes? The problem I run into is that the CFM page will exist, it will execute, but the referenced data is often expired. A typical URL might look like:

Re: How to remove dynamic content from search engines?

2005-02-03 Thread Bryan Stevenson
PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 11:26 AM Subject: How to remove dynamic content from search engines? What are some strategies for removing references to old dynamically generated pages from search engine indexes? The problem I run

Re: How to remove dynamic content from search engines?

2005-02-03 Thread Jim McAtee
from search engines? .HTAccess file...or robots.txt Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. phone: 250.480.0642 fax: 250.480.1264 cell: 250.920.8830 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.electricedgesystems.com - Original Message

Re: How to remove dynamic content from search engines?

2005-02-03 Thread Bryan Stevenson
search engines? That sounds like a maintenance nightmare. We're talking about thousands of entries over the course of a year or two. For example, news stories or event postings might run a few days or months, then drop off. Many of the records reference paid listings that can also be un-expired

RE: How to remove dynamic content from search engines?

2005-02-03 Thread Burns, John D
: Thursday, February 03, 2005 3:14 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: How to remove dynamic content from search engines? That sounds like a maintenance nightmare. We're talking about thousands of entries over the course of a year or two. For example, news stories or event postings might run a few days

Re: How to remove dynamic content from search engines?

2005-02-03 Thread Matt Robertson
If robots.txt entries aren't an available option, make all CF 404's redirect to a certain page via CF's 404 handler. You can do the same with IIS 404's. This can be an 'oops' page or it can just be a redirect to the site's home page. If the content is statically published and expired, I

Re: How to remove dynamic content from search engines?

2005-02-03 Thread Jim McAtee
dynamic content from search engines? If robots.txt entries aren't an available option, make all CF 404's redirect to a certain page via CF's 404 handler. You can do the same with IIS 404's. This can be an 'oops' page or it can just be a redirect to the site's home page. If the content

Re: How to remove dynamic content from search engines?

2005-02-03 Thread Matt Robertson
I've got what I call 'pseudo-static' pages that are named like http://www.mysite.com/invalidpage.cfm but are in fact dynamic. Once they are deleted the aftermath is handled by the 404 handler or by publishing a linkrot page that does a redirect. For your first example, I check for that ID

RE: (OT?) White space and search engines

2004-08-06 Thread Pascal Peters
I can't back you up with data, but don't forget forms (value attributes of input, option and content of textarea). Pascal -Original Message- From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 August 2004 06:10 To: CF-Talk Subject: (OT?) White space and search engines I'm

Re: (OT?) White space and search engines

2004-08-06 Thread Kay Smoljak
Hi Michael, Less whitespace is always a good thing, but it's not really a big issue for search engines. The code to content ratio (ie, efficiency of html) is more of an issue, as is getting the relevant keyword-rich content as close to the top of the page as possible. I guess what I'm trying

Re: (OT?) White space and search engines

2004-08-06 Thread Kevin Graeme
Why not just enable HTTP compression on the web server? -Kevin - Original Message - From: Michael Dinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 11:10 PM Subject: (OT?) White space and search engines I'm giving a presentation on RegEx this Wed

Re: (OT?) White space and search engines

2004-08-06 Thread Claude Schneegans
it will make the page smaller It will surely do, but may be not as much as one could think. When one look at the source code of a page, one can be amazed by the percentage of white space, sometimes it looks like 50% of the page is white space. However the white space is mostly caused by tabs

RE: (OT?) White space and search engines

2004-08-06 Thread mdinowit
Didn't think of those. Thanks. _ From: Pascal Peters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 3:57 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: (OT?) White space and search engines I can't back you up with data, but don't forget forms (value attributes of input, option and content

RE: (OT?) White space and search engines

2004-08-06 Thread Michael Dinowitz
have limited experience with webserver based compressors. _ From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 8:56 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: (OT?) White space and search engines Why not just enable HTTP compression on the web server? -Kevin - Original Message

RE: (OT?) White space and search engines

2004-08-06 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Actually, it counts heavily on coding style. I like lots of space, indents and the like in my code. You read my code and it's beautiful. This does add extra material to the html source. Just look at an average archive page (go to the link at bottom) and you'll see extra space. _ it will

Re: (OT?) White space and search engines

2004-08-06 Thread Claude Schneegans
I like lots of space, indents and the like in my code. Sure, it helps for readibility, but what I mean is that it does not take as many characters as the apparent space they generate. -- ___ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See

Re: (OT?) White space and search engines

2004-08-06 Thread Kevin Graeme
AM Subject: RE: (OT?) White space and search engines http compression on a dynamic page? Yes, it'll make the stream faster but the actual content is the same. Even with white space management turned on, CF has extra space that can't be removed by a web server based compression engine (at least

Re: (OT?) White space and search engines

2004-08-06 Thread Kevin Graeme
Oh. I glossed over the SEO aspect. I don't recall anything about better placement because of a single line. Erika would probably know though. -Kevin I'm under the impression that if this is done, it will make the page smaller and also increase the pages search engine position as it makes the

Re: (OT?) White space and search engines

2004-08-06 Thread Matt Robertson
CF has a free gzip cfx thats been available for quite awhile.Works great.You need cfx_GZip and cf_GZipPage.I've been running it on its highest setting for years with no trouble. -- --Matt Robertson-- MSB Designs, Inc. mysecretbase.com [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast

(OT?) White space and search engines

2004-08-05 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I'm giving a presentation on RegEx this Wed. and one of the things I'll be showing is a tight little piece of code that will compress a webpage by removing all 'extra' spaces (and tabs, new lines, etc.) from all places other than script and pre tags. I'm under the impression that if this is done,

Re: (OT?) White space and search engines

2004-08-05 Thread brobborb
DEATH TO CODE READABILITY?!!! - Original Message - From: Michael Dinowitz To: CF-Talk Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 11:10 PM Subject: (OT?) White space and search engines I'm giving a presentation on RegEx this Wed. and one of the things I'll be showing is a tight little piece

Re: (OT?) White space and search engines

2004-08-05 Thread Michael Dinowitz
. You'll have to take the tag out or uncompress the html to debug it, but you'd only use the tag on finished code anyway. DEATH TO CODE READABILITY?!!! - Original Message - From: Michael Dinowitz To: CF-Talk Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 11:10 PM Subject: (OT?) White space and search

Re: counting clicks on links - search engines

2004-07-15 Thread Kay Smoljak
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:41:17 -0400, Andrew Grosset [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is: will the search engines follow that link to the final destination and would cflocation be best used or a meta refresh in the link_counter.cfm page? As I understand it, that won't work very well. Much

Re: counting clicks on links - search engines

2004-07-15 Thread Andrew Grosset
Many thanks, that's an excellent idea. regards, Andrew. On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:41:17 -0400, Andrew Grosset [EMAIL PROTECTED] com wrote: My question is: will the search engines follow that link to the final destination and would cflocation be best used or a meta refresh

Re: counting clicks on links - search engines

2004-07-15 Thread Bryan Stevenson
ColdFusion Users Group Founder Director www.cfug-vancouverisland.com - Original Message - From: Andrew Grosset To: CF-Talk Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 11:44 AM Subject: Re: counting clicks on links - search engines Many thanks, that's an excellent idea. regards, Andrew. On Wed, 14 Jul

Re: counting clicks on links - search engines

2004-07-15 Thread Brendan Canty
on links - search engines Many thanks, that's an excellent idea. regards, Andrew. On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:41:17 -0400, Andrew Grosset [EMAIL PROTECTED] com wrote: My question is: will the search engines follow that link to the final destination and would cflocation be best used or a meta

Re: counting clicks on links - search engines

2004-07-15 Thread Bryan Stevenson
good...but I'd run it by an SEO pro to be sure.It is possible for that approach to be viewed by the search engines as misleading.I say this because the href and the onClick go to different places (even though the user/spider/robot all get sent to example.com). I would liken this to having a text

counting clicks on links - search engines

2004-07-14 Thread Andrew Grosset
Links on page go to a template that calls database adds 1 click and redirects to correct page etc etc. My question is: will the search engines follow that link to the final destination and would cflocation be best used or a meta refresh in the link_counter.cfm page? a href="" of

Search Engines CFID/CFTOKEN

2004-03-19 Thread Brad Roberts
I use a udf to create all of my links (i.e. createLink(myLink), in order to append cfid/cftoken to every url.However, I don't want search engines to index my sites with a cfid/cftoken.Any way around this? Thanks, Brad [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe

Re: Search Engines CFID/CFTOKEN

2004-03-19 Thread Thomas Chiverton
On Friday 19 Mar 2004 13:22 pm, Brad Roberts wrote: append cfid/cftoken to every url.However, I don't want search engines to index my sites with a cfid/cftoken.Any way around this? Check the browser string and do something different if it's a spider. -- Tom Chiverton Advanced ColdFusion

RE: Search Engines CFID/CFTOKEN

2004-03-19 Thread Brad Roberts
comprise a list of the top crawlers, and if so, any suggestions on a list of (popular) words to test against? -Brad -Original Message- From: Thomas Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 8:40 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Search Engines CFID/CFTOKEN On Friday 19 Mar

Re: SOT: Internal/Intranet Search Engines - What to ask the sales critters

2003-11-16 Thread Larry C. Lyons
at the search engines) its for technicians and engineers who need to access the technical manuals on the shop floor. As far as I know, the computers will all be the same. I've passed along the question list to my friend. Again thanks for your help. larry [Todays Threads] [This Message

Re:SOT: Internal/Intranet Search Engines - What to ask the sales critters

2003-11-14 Thread Jeremy Brodie
Larry, Some of the critical questions to help you in your search. 1) Do you need to search locally from a CD/DVD or from a server? 2) In what file format is the manual (PDF, word docs, etc) 3) What will you use as your user interface for searching the manual (flash, HTML, etc)? 4) What is your

SOT: Internal/Intranet Search Engines - What to ask the sales critters

2003-11-13 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Greetings, The company a friend of mine works for is starting to look at search engines like Verity, Google, Altavista or DTSearch for searching as he puts it: they want to be able to search the IETM database (on their own server for their DWAN, which they call a web server because it uses

Re:SOT: Internal/Intranet Search Engines - What to ask the sales critters

2003-11-13 Thread Jeremy Brodie
, The company a friend of mine works for is starting to look at search engines like Verity, Google, Altavista or DTSearch for searching as he puts it: they want to be able to search the IETM database (on their own server for their DWAN, which they call a web server because it uses the same

Re: SOT: Internal/Intranet Search Engines - What to ask the sales critters

2003-11-13 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Jeremy Brodie wrote: Larry, This all depends on what you're trying to do and your budget. Here's some information 1) Google is a 2u search appliance that you would fit on a rack. The appliance runs into the thousands of dollars-- but then you're using Google. Google is a document

Re:Third-Party Search Engines with Customizeable Results?

2003-10-01 Thread Don
, several of our clients would like a search engine that displays the results by *section* of the website, and then by relevance within those sections. 1) Does anyone know of a search engine that does this? 2) What other search engines do people use that they're happy with? Kelly Tetterton

Third-Party Search Engines with Customizeable Results?

2003-09-30 Thread Kelly Tetterton
that displays the results by *section* of the website, and then by relevance within those sections. 1) Does anyone know of a search engine that does this? 2) What other search engines do people use that they're happy with? Kelly Tetterton duo | Technical Lead One Web Company. Twice the Results

RE: Third-Party Search Engines with Customizeable Results?

2003-09-30 Thread Dave Watts
engine that displays the results by *section* of the website, and then by relevance within those sections. 1) Does anyone know of a search engine that does this? 2) What other search engines do people use that they're happy with? I'm not familiar with FreeFind, but it seems to me that you

Re: Third-Party Search Engines with Customizeable Results?

2003-09-30 Thread Pete Freitag
clients would like a search engine that displays the results by *section* of the website, and then by relevance within those sections. 1) Does anyone know of a search engine that does this? 2) What other search engines do people use that they're happy with? Take a look at Atomz http

Re:Third-Party Search Engines with Customizeable Results?

2003-09-30 Thread Don
, and then by relevance within those sections. 1) Does anyone know of a search engine that does this? 2) What other search engines do people use that they're happy with? Kelly Tetterton duo | Technical Lead One Web Company. Twice the Results. 312.224.9650 | main 312.224.9648 | direct 312.224.9651 | fax

Query String for Search Engines

2003-09-19 Thread Jim Gurfein
I've bee doing some research on Search engines for dynamic sites... one thing I've run across is this statement: Reconfigure your Cold Fusion setup to replace the ? in a query string with a '/' and pass the value to the URL. I can understand how to do this programmatically, but what set up

RE: Query String for Search Engines

2003-09-19 Thread Craig Dudley
No need to do that at all. It might have been true a LONG LONG time ago, but all search engines can cope with dynamic urls these days. I wouldn't bother. Craig. -Original Message- From: Jim Gurfein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 September 2003 12:31 To: CF-Talk Subject: Query String

Search Engines , bookmarks and security

2003-09-09 Thread Rafael Bleiweiss
I've got a shopping cart on a few sites where my original code passes the order number on the URL. Now, my system checks to see if an Order Number is passed on the URL, and if so, checks to see if it's older than 30 minutes old... if it is, I present a message saying it's expired. In the

Search Engines

2003-07-16 Thread Ryan
We currently use the canned verity search features that come with CF 5, but we're outgrowing it. Can anyone give me a few leads on alternative search engines other than K2? I'd like a few options to explore. BTW, we're indexing text out of a database, not pages on the site. Thanks! Ryan

RE: Search Engines

2003-07-16 Thread Matthew Fusfield
have the document number limitations that the bundled engine has. Matt -Original Message- From: Ryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 9:35 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Search Engines We currently use the canned verity search features that come with CF 5, but we're

RE: Search Engines

2003-07-16 Thread Kola Oyedeji
Ryan What db are you using? If you're using SQL server - full text search may be an option? Kola -Original Message- From: Ryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 July 2003 14:35 To: CF-Talk Subject: Search Engines We currently use the canned verity search features that come

Re: Search Engines

2003-07-16 Thread Ryan
Message - From: Kola Oyedeji [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 8:49 AM Subject: RE: Search Engines Ryan What db are you using? If you're using SQL server - full text search may be an option? Kola -Original Message- From: Ryan [mailto

RE: Search Engines

2003-07-16 Thread Adam Hope
. Adam. -Original Message- From: Ryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 9:35 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Search Engines We currently use the canned verity search features that come with CF 5, but we're outgrowing it. Can anyone give me a few leads on alternative search

Re: Search Engines

2003-07-16 Thread Ryan
16, 2003 9:01 AM Subject: RE: Search Engines Hi Ryan, We used to use verity but when we started indexing over 3million files it got very slow indeed. We now use lucene to index flat files and database content. If you are a java coder you can write your own cfx interface to lucene

RE: Search Engines

2003-07-16 Thread Adam Hope
Hi Ryan, We are accessing the database via jdbc, quering for the columns we need and then indexing the returned data. Adam. -Original Message- From: Ryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 July 2003 15:42 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Search Engines Hey, Adam, Thanks for the response

MX and URL trick for search engines

2002-07-30 Thread MW
We use the trick of replacing the ampersands and question marks in a URL with slashes in order to have our website indexed by search engines. Instead of having the URL appear as: MySite.cfm?VarName=Value it appears as MyPage.cfm/VarName/Value This works extremely well in CF5 on IIS5 (patched

Re: MX and URL trick for search engines

2002-07-30 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at 08:08 , MW wrote: MyPage.cfm/VarName/Value We are now configuring CFMX on a development server, and all of a sudden it is broken. In CFMX, CGI.PATH_INFO should contain /VarName/Value - I believe this is slightly different behavior to CF5? If you're not annoying

Re: MX and URL trick for search engines

2002-07-30 Thread Martin Orth
PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 5:08 PM Subject: MX and URL trick for search engines We use the trick of replacing the ampersands and question marks in a URL with slashes in order to have our website indexed by search engines. Instead of having the URL

Re: MX and URL trick for search engines

2002-07-30 Thread Bryan F. Hogan
See cfdev.com's products -Original Message- From: MW [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 11:15 AM Subject: MX and URL trick for search engines We use the trick of replacing the ampersands and question marks in a URL with slashes in order to have

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