making website searchable

[tazderek]

Hi i've been creating simple websites will asp, javascript, etc. with databases now for a little while...however i've never had to design a website that is searchable and i'm not really sure how to really do it let alone get started and was hoping that someone could help me out with some guidence.:confused::confused::confused:

[russell]

If you are running iis5 see Microsoft Indexing Service (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/indexsrv/html/indexingservicestartpage_6td1.asp).

You can also use google to search your site, but I'll admit that i can't remember the syntax (do a search on these forums) it's something like <form action="google.com/search?f=MySearchTerm&site=MySite">...

Depending on your database, storage, and programming skills, you could write a custom search -- it could be a simple matter of putting keywords in a database linked to page urls, or as complex as writing a spider to index all of the content in your pages and pop 'em into a database.

There are also several search components available for sale by reputable vendors.

If you're running iis, start with indexing service though.