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search tool for our site?

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by wba

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I would like to add a search field to our website. Can anyone recommend a tool that would be affordable that could index a smallish site. We have HTML, MSWord, and PDF files we would like to index. And I would like to be able to manipulate the look and feel of the search form and the results pages. And it has to work with IE and Netscape going back to versions 4.0.

Any suggestions?

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by jay eckles

I've used Swish-E from Berkley for a long time. It has a nice indexing utility and is very, very fast when the user performs a searc. It comes with a sample CGI application, and I used the CGI as a starting point for developing a custom search application. You can certainly customize the search and results pages, and assuming you code your markup correctly, it will work with any browser.

http://swish-e.org/

Good luck.

Jay
www.jayeckles.com

by talleywho

Or if you want to use MS indexing service, it's free and you prob already have it. Just be aware that you may find the documentation lacking. I have used it on intranet sites and there is a plugin you can get to make it search pdf files.

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