Application Search Engine

[C]

Hi,

I am starting to develop an ASP.Net app that will have a
search section that will allow the user to search the
site.

I have come across the google search appliance which is
quite big.

I am currently considering freefind.com search product.

Does anyone else out there know of any good search
engines I can use?

It is a small application (about 10 aspx pages).

Thanks in Advance,
C

[Barry]

I've used Atomz (http://www.atomz.com) with very good results. It's free
for <500 page sites as long as you don't mind a little Atomz logo on you
results page.

Barry

*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***
Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!

[Peter O'Reilly]

> I am starting to develop an ASP.Net app that will have a
> search section that will allow the user to search the
> site.

For searches within your own web site try Microsoft Index Services. It is a
(free) Windows component. It allows you to not only search ASP and ASPx
files, but also HTML, newsgroup (files) and Office documents among others.
Microsoft's documentation is fairly good and depending on your needs, most
likely little programming work, if any is needed to use Index Services.
(You'll probably want to touch-up their search criteria pages with your own
ASP script
modifications). You may need to install this Windows OS component service
from control panel/computer management, etc., if it is not already
installed.

On the other hand, if you want to perform external searches, google may
still be a viable option using web services.
(I presume this is differs from the "big" google search appliance you refer
to). Check out the Visual Studio help topic,
"Using Visual Basic .NET to Access Google's Web Service" on how to do so.
(ms-help://MS.VSCC.2003/MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1033/dv_vstechart/html/vbtchacces
singgooglewithvb.htm)

Hope this helps.
--
Peter O'Reilly

[TheGuru]

"C" <c...@nospam.com> wrote in message news:<03fb01c356d7$32fc9fc0$a401...@phx.gbl>...

FusionBot is my preferred option:

http://www.fusionbot.com

Since it's a hosted solution, rather than purchasing and installing
software on your server (which may not be an option), you subscribe to
their service, they crawl and remotely maintain the search index for
you on their servers, and you simply paste a few lines of HTML form
code on your site, to insert the search box.

That's it, pretty nifty, and you can have search up and running on
your site in minutes.

They offer a free version for the first 250 pages of your site.