Web Site Search Engine applicaton recommendations?

[ambolina]

Hi,

I'm trying to find a company that offers a search application that sits on our own server (vs. remote services like picosearch). Any recommendations would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

[PeOfEo]

What does your server support visa vi server side languages. You are going to need a data base and a means to search it.

[ambolina]

Ok, let's see if I can give you some useful info (i do all the design and content for my company's site and my partner in IT does all the coding so I'm not sure about all the finer points).We could build our own search engine w/ a database, but we don't have the resources timewise and I'd rather we just had an application that regularly indexed our pages and I'm afraid that it wouldn't work very well (seems to be a problem/complaint a lot of companies have about their search functions).

So we have a Windows 2003 Web Server and a SQL server, both hosted in-house. I assume knowing that would tell you what server side languages we can support?

[PeOfEo]

ASP and ASP.NET make sure those are installed, they should come already installed with w2k3 server though. mssql server is definatly nice to have, that will make your search times a whole lot faster and allow you to support more users at a time and have more data. I would poke around www.asp.net in the componentt gallery etc and see what people have premade if time is short and you do not have the time to learn a new technolgy. But I do reccomend learning asp.net because it is the newest server side language, object oriented, and a heck of a lot less work then asp classic. So if you want to customise this or make it better some day you will be able to do that, that is if you can manage to find something that will suit your neads now.
http://www.asp.net/whitepaper/whyaspnet.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=1