Re: Web Search Software

Preston,

Does it need to be hosted by you guys, or would you be comfortable
outsourcing this.  If so, I'd try www.atomz.com .  Because our site is
hosted on an AS/400 running Lotus Domino and the search engine IBM wrote for
the 400 is woefully inadequate, I decided to let them handle it.  They're a
free service (they place a small "powered by Atomz.com" graphic at the top
of your search results, pretty unobtrusive), and unlike the other free
services I've seen, you can write your own results page and place the
results wherever you want them to go.  They index your site once a week on a
schedule, but you can force an index any time you like.  You can control the
scoring of your pages, they index PDF's, and they provide reports on the top
words and terms searched for in the last day, week and month.  I'd like to
see everything my users are searching for, but you can't have everything,
can you?

Anyway, I have no affiliation with them; they just provide a very nice
service for free and I'd like to see them stay in business (at least until I
can get my hands on better search engine software for my 400).

HTH -

Mike Eovino
Webmaster
Estes Express Lines
http://www.estes-express.com

-----Original Message-----
From: the sleeper <webnews(at)sleepertechnologies.com>
To: Jim Tom Polk <jtpolk(at)texas.net>; hwg-software(at)mail.hwg.org
<hwg-software(at)mail.hwg.org>
Cc: jbowman(at)longwood.lwc.edu <jbowman(at)longwood.lwc.edu>
Date: Thursday, September 30, 1999 2:51 AM
Subject: RE: Web Search Software


>Jim,
>
>Great link! Unfortunately, my ISP is on NT and wont install IIS.
>Any clues on such a tool for Win/NT Servers?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Preston
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-software(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-software(at)hwg.org]On
> Behalf Of Jim Tom Polk
> Sent: Saturday, September 18, 1999 5:17 PM
> To: hwg-software(at)mail.hwg.org
> Cc: jbowman(at)longwood.lwc.edu
> Subject: Re: Web Search Software
>
>
> I have found that htdig is a good program, with plenty of options that
> are can easily be configured from the htdig.conf file. It is fast and
> can span several servers (a must for us).
>
> I like how it does searches for a word. For instance, if you enter in
> ''design'' it will do searches for the following:
>
> designs or design or designed or designing or designer or designers
>
> and puts that up at the top of the page for the user to see.
>
> http://www.htdig.org/
>
> It works very well.
>
> > We are looking into adding a
> > "search our site" feature and need a program that will index pages for
us
> > and allow people to search without requiring us to first go back and add
> > special "search tags" to all of the pages on our site.  Quality, cost
and
> > extensibility are all factors.
>
> --
>
>
> Jim Tom Polk -:- jtpolk(at)texas.net -:- http://camalott.com/~jtpolk/
> ''You might as well fall flat on your face as
>   lean over too far backwards.''      --James Thurber--
>    "The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three
>           elements: energy, matter and enlightened self-interest."
>  - G'Kar  "Survivors"
>
>
>

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