On Friday 26 September 2008 21:02, (Margaret) Michele Waldman wrote: > I went with google search. > > The search results are black font on a white background. I don't know what > color the links are yet, because the site hasn't been indexed. > > I don't think it's customizable, which fully means it was a lousy choice. > > If it's not I'm going to advise my customer to cancel her account and I'll > use swish-e.
Sorry I am late to this thread, but Yahoo! has! a! webservice! for! search! http://developer.yahoo.com/search/web/ no ads, no cost. It's limited to something like 5000 queries a day, which shouldn't be a problem for small sites. You can limit the results to your site of course. It will even return the results as a serialized php array, which you can unserialize and then iterate over to display it however you want. Couldn't be much easier. example: http://www.copleysociety.org/ The disadvantage v/s your own local spider like SWISH-E is that you can't control it - a change to your site might take a week or more to show up in search results. Also you can't index things that are password protected. [The disadvantage with SWISH-E is that it is completely useless as a search engine. The matching algorithm is primitive to say the least. It does however a good job of thrashing your server when it runs.] There is of course no direct financial benefit to Yahoo! to doing this, I am not sure why they do. (If MSFT had bought them you can be sure this would be the kind of thing kicked to the curb immediately :) Sam _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
