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Website search feature - Spider or Database

Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 1:06 pm
by timclaason
Is it best to design a site so that all page content is in a database, and you do the search with a SQL query, or is it better to have content in pages, and have some spidering that a search feature can use?

It seems to me that it's better to keep page content in a database, if possible, but I'm not sure if there's a consensus or not.

Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 1:56 pm
by John Cartwright
In terms of searchability, I would defiantly choose a database. Google around for fulltext, and you'll quickly see why :wink: