Posted by cewyattjr on 11/27/06 01:11

crescent_au@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am building a website for an employer. They want to have a search
> utility in it. I don't need a very complicated search utility.
> Something simple which just searches through contents and products.
> What's the idea behind it? I am thinking of putting everything in
> database- all the contents that is. This makes it easy to search
> through the fields in the database. Is this the correct way? Is there a
> better way that you know of? Please point me in the right direction.
>
> Cheers!

If it is a public web site, I would just consider using Google.
http://www.google.com/coop/cse/

They've got some nice API's. If you can get the Ajax one to be a site
search, then you've really got something.

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