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Search my site
I want to add a search feature to a site that I'm setting up.
Ideally the search should
1. look like part of my site (I know that most search engines let me restrict the search to a domain, but then it still usually looks like whatever search engine...)
2. NOT require CGI or other scripting (JavaScript is okay if it's the only way, but I prefer non-JavaScript solutions)
My pages are HTML manually authored.
So is there is a search engine which I can use, to this.
I would consider a valid answer, either a segment of HTML showing me how to do this, or a link to web site which explains this.
Remember - I want this to look like part of my site - not like somebody else's search engine.
Ideally the search should
1. look like part of my site (I know that most search engines let me restrict the search to a domain, but then it still usually looks like whatever search engine...)
2. NOT require CGI or other scripting (JavaScript is okay if it's the only way, but I prefer non-JavaScript solutions)
My pages are HTML manually authored.
So is there is a search engine which I can use, to this.
I would consider a valid answer, either a segment of HTML showing me how to do this, or a link to web site which explains this.
Remember - I want this to look like part of my site - not like somebody else's search engine.
ASKER
you may be right, you may not be - not an acceptable answer johnny
i find found plenty of other services which allow you to impose your own look for dynamic content (based on dynamic content driven by somebody else's server). Hopefully somebody has a server on the web to do that.
I will accept a less than 100% fit, if it largely can be made to look like part of my site.
i find found plenty of other services which allow you to impose your own look for dynamic content (based on dynamic content driven by somebody else's server). Hopefully somebody has a server on the web to do that.
I will accept a less than 100% fit, if it largely can be made to look like part of my site.
OK how about this then:
http://www.cgi-resources.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Remotely_Hosted/Searching_Your_Web_Site/
which I found by doing an AltaVista search for "remote index your site"
it's a collection of remote search engine resources, one of which says "Customise your results with your own HTML, to make this script look and feel good. Remotley hosted, on our CGI-Dedicated Server."
Not free though...
http://www.cgi-resources.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Remotely_Hosted/Searching_Your_Web_Site/
which I found by doing an AltaVista search for "remote index your site"
it's a collection of remote search engine resources, one of which says "Customise your results with your own HTML, to make this script look and feel good. Remotley hosted, on our CGI-Dedicated Server."
Not free though...
ASKER
1. The page works but the link you refer to (the 2nd one) is broken
2. ...come on there ought to be somebody with a free service...
3. Johnny99 - thanks 4 your ideas - but please post a comment rather than an answer unless you're really leading me to the right place. Lots of experts don't always read/comment on locked questions - so give them a chance to see the question. If you post a comment that leads me to the answer, I will give you the points (by first asking you in a comment to post a dummy answer)
2. ...come on there ought to be somebody with a free service...
3. Johnny99 - thanks 4 your ideas - but please post a comment rather than an answer unless you're really leading me to the right place. Lots of experts don't always read/comment on locked questions - so give them a chance to see the question. If you post a comment that leads me to the answer, I will give you the points (by first asking you in a comment to post a dummy answer)
OK, but I think I've given you an answer of sorts -- you need to do a search for remotely hosted search engines and I'm sure you'll come up with something. The good ones won't be cheap, and the cheap ones won't be good!
ASKER
dagon - this is excellent, I like it. Well done. You get the pts. Lock the Q with a dummy answer and I'll give an A.
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It's not that hard to get a CGI solution together, but if you really really can't do that, you're stuck with someone else's solution and it won't "look like part of your site".