Gary, Google and other search engines will index your site once they follow a link from the outside to your site. The fact that your site is served by cocoon makes no difference. If they follow a link to a page in your site and that page contains further internal links to your site then you are indexed. Simple as that. Some of these engines and 3rd party paid services (e.g., overture.com) let you register your page with them to get the ball rolling.
I have no experiemce with Lucene but from what I can tell it allows you to provide search within your own site. Getting Lucene to work (or not) has no bearing on external engines being able to crawl your site. If you serve up HTML they will index it. It does not matter where the html came from (xml, database, etc.) -Sal ---------------------------------------------------------- Salvatore R. Mangano, President sal.mangano@ into-technology.com http://www.into-technology.com Into Technology transforms software into enduring assets. NOTICE: If received in error, please destroy and notify sender. Sender does not waive confidentiality or privilege, and use is prohibited. > -----Original Message----- > From: Schultz, Gary - COMM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 2:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Indexing cocoon for search engines > > > After trying to get this working, I've determined I'm having > trouble getting cocoon indexed properly outside of the Lucene > example. Eventually I need to have Cocoon indexed by Google, > Inktomi etc. Yesterday someone posted a reply showing that > something served by Cocoon can be indexed by Google. But how > does one get this setup? I've looked at the Wiki and other > documents without success. If I can't get indexing to work, > management will force me away from Cocoon to a Microsoft ASP > based solution, which I would prefer to avoid. Any and all > assistance is greatly appreciated. > > Gary T. Schultz > Web Technical Administrator / GIS Coordinator > Wisconsin Department of Commerce > 6th Floor > P.O. Box 7970 > Madison, WI > 1-608-266-1283 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
