Posted by Markus Ernst on 05/31/06 11:39

hazly schrieb:
> I'm very new in the web technology and need advice on search engine. I
> want to develop a portal using PHP and MySQL on Linux. Need to know on
> the following features :
> 1. search engine that could search my portal (mySQL, PDF, Ms Word &
> others)
> 2. search engine that could search to few web sites specified by
> user/programmer
>

You have 3 possibilities:
1. Implement site search functionality on your web server. There are
several tools available, but I guess if you want PDF or Office files
indexed you might have to choose a paid one.
2. Use an external service that regularly spiders your site and provides
customized search result pages. I remember having found Atomz good some
years ago, but I don't know today's market. Here also, for a
professional level you might prefer a paid service.
3. Call Google or any other public search engine, with the site keyword
(http://www.google.com/search?q=site:mysql.com+fulltext for example
searches mysql.com for the keyword 'fulltext').

For points 1 and 2 you might google for "site search".

HTH
Markus

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