Search Option on the Website

[montysidhu911]

Hi,

I am working on a search option to be provided on our website. I have two options one is to crate a filesystemobject and then search for the key words and other one is to get the web page text into a database and then perform the search there.

The problem with Filesystemobject is dat the most frequently searched keywords appear on our Menu's two which are in text links. So in the most cases whole webpages comes out in the search result.

I would request the moderator to help me out wat should i do ..... if there is any other option then please do guide me.

Hope to hear soon on this post

monty

[Ubik]

I would write a spider to crawl and index all of the pages on my webserver, and place the words into a dictionary or index table, then rank the words to your liking, and use that index to perform searches.

Have the spider crawl whenever something changes, and you will have your search.

[Bullschmidt]

Some possibly helpful links:

Using Index Server to Search Your Web Site - Part I by John Peterson
http://www.asp101.com/articles/john/indexserver/default.asp

Implementing a Search Engine in ASP - 11/10/1998
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/111098-1.shtml
"A completely dynamic search engine for a completely dynamic web site will hit a database table which ties an article URL to the article's description."

A Text-Based Search Engine - 10/24/1999
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/102499-1.shtml
"Using the FileSystemObject, you can search through all of the files in a particular directory that contain a particular string."

A Nifty Table Searching Script by Jerry Wood - 5/27/1999
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/052799-1.shtml
Not really a search engine.

Site Search with Index Server 3 by Darryl Fosbery - 3/25/2001
http://www.asp-help.com/articles/2000_indexserver3.asp

[montysidhu911]

Thanks alot guys!!!!!!!!!!!