Jeremy Howard wrote:
>
> I'm glad you brought this up again. Since I mentioned I'd be happy to host such a
>thing, and asked for suggestions, I've got a total of one (from Stas--thanks!). That
>suggestion was to use ht://dig <http://www.htdig.org/>.
>
> Has anyone got a search engine up and running that they're happy with? Stas has made
>the good point that it needs to be able to hilight found words, since the pages are
>quite large. If anyone has a chance to do a bit of research about (free) search
>engines, I'd really appreciate it if you could let me know what you find out. It'd be
>nice publicity if it was mod_perl based, I guess, but it doesn't really matter.
>
>
I know this is absolute anathema, considering you guys are developers,
but...
Have you looked at www.atomz.com, at least as a temporary solution? (A
free service for sites with fewer than 500 pages). Basically, the
search brings up their page, but you can customize it to look just like
one of yours. It truly is fast (as hell) and flexible, and it does
highlight found words. Even does soundalikes in the absence of other
matches. The result page will show their logo, though, but it's rather
unobtrusive.
(The biggest drawback, as a long-term solution, is that if you change
the look of your pages, you have one more maintenance chore to do, in
that you have to go over to atomz.com and change your result page there
as well).
O'Reilly uses it, if that helps! :-)
Try this:
http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-a=0002078e-sp00000000&sp-q=cgi&sp-k=Books
(Looks for O'Reilly books pages containing 'cgi').
Yeah, I know, I'd rather roll my own, too, given time...
