Re: search engine refinement

Ah... This looks more like a job for a Database and query sort of an 
arrangement, probably with server-side includes.
Instead of making the pages the computer will generate them as needed. Even 
an internal search engine is intended to serve as a dynamic index to the 
content of the pages, rather than to the pages themselves. Your main 
database might have several fields.... An unique key number; A model type, 
perhaps year, a title description, and then a detailed description. You 
then make one page, with drop downs for the first fields to narrow the 
query, and then will fill in the details and the picture from the database 
when an individual car is selected

Sounds good, but I haven't a clue as to how to do it. I am working with 
databases like this in Visual Basic Application Development but that is a 
different department. Maybe some others here will have ideas on how to do this.



>Hi Elias,
>
>Thanks for your input on search engine strategy but perhaps I didn't make 
>myself clear that I was talking about a search engine on site that would 
>only be searching the documents that I specify.
>
>What I have is a car dealership. I put the name of the car on each page's 
>metatags. So when a person types in "chevy" it will only bring up those 
>pages with chevys on them and not pick up the "buick, chevy, pontiac, 
>olds" logos and alt tags, links to the other pages, etc., that appear on 
>each page in the html code and other text. This is why I need it to only 
>search the meta tags. I'm just starting to load the car pages and there 
>will be hundreds of them eventually so it's important that I get this fine 
>tuned now.
>
>I am aware of being able to eliminate some pages from the search but what 
>I need is to know how to get it to focus just on the meta tags.
>
>If you or anyone else has any suggestions for me I would appreciate it. 
>Here is the URL of the search engine:
>
>http://parkwaychevrolet.net/cgi-bin/search.cgi
>
>Thanks,
>
>Lori

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