Website Sub Search

[robocop]

Hey there everyone...hope youre all havin a good one........

Does anyone know of any free asp scripts that i could use to do a search on my site? i dotn want to mess with databases just yet.....so i was wondering what the best way to do a site search was...............


thanks yall....

kc

[aCcodeMonkey]

Robocop,

First check with your ISP. they may have CGI search scripts already available. if not, and your website is exposed to the internet, the site is non-comercial and under 500 pages you could use ATOMZ.com's free search services.

Atomz.com (http://www.atomz.com/)

If your website is in intranet, you can also use Index Server. It is installed by default in W2k Svr. There are preformatted search pages that come with index server.

Also, if you have pages that you do not want "indexed" add the following meta tag.
<META NAME="Robots" CONTENT="NOINDEX">

Other good META tags to use are:
<meta name="Keywords" content="Comma, separated, words, or commone phrases, that will help the, search engine, find this webpage">
<meta name="Description" content="Text that will be displayed by the search engine's results page"/>

[robocop]

ok........so how much does Atomz cost? also, Index Server is only for intranets?

[aCcodeMonkey]

Atomz is free for small non-commercial website
IndexServer is installed on NT and W2K servers.
Normall you find IIS Intranets using Index Server.
Your ISP may be using Apache on UNIX servers. If so, you cannot use Index Server. Some ISP's do not enable Index Server by default.