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Search Box

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:25 am
by shiznatix
I have this website and currently it is using Drupal and we are using the drupal search. Well, Drupal sucks and I am nearly done with a website using my own framework. The only problem is that I do not have a search capabilities in my framework so I was thinking about using something like google, yahoo, or something else. Basically I want a small search box and a submit button, I get the search stuff and I either use cURL or SOAP to call some API and it returns the results for my website only.

Now I know google had that for a while but they stopped giving keys. I am wondering if anyone has had any expierence with Yahoo or maybe another search engine that will be nice to me.

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 5:50 am
by superdezign
There are free searches that you could use (programmed with PHP) to spider and index your webpages, allowing you to make your website searchable within itself, rather than relying on a different engine.

I'm pretty sure that Google forbids automatic querying. They don't run the search engine for free, you know.

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 6:25 am
by shiznatix
superdezign wrote:There are free searches that you could use (programmed with PHP) to spider and index your webpages, allowing you to make your website searchable within itself, rather than relying on a different engine.

I'm pretty sure that Google forbids automatic querying. They don't run the search engine for free, you know.
Exactally what tools would do this? Any success stories with any of them?

ps. For the next few days I will be in London. If anyone wants to hook up give me a call at +372-569-99897 (I hope I am not breaking forum rules for posting that)

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 6:38 am
by onion2k
superdezign wrote:I'm pretty sure that Google forbids automatic querying. They don't run the search engine for free, you know.
Yahoo and MSN manage to provide search APIs. Google don't because they're not as good.

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:59 am
by pickle
PHPDig seems to be the most populare PHP-driven search engine. It also has the ability to search documents like PDFs. I've never used it, but I plan to.