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[Butthead]

I"m going to be helping someone re-do parts of their site which were originally done with Frontpage. One of the things on the site is a search. What would you recommend as the best way to search pages. This is with a hosting provider with no database. Is there an easy way to create hashes? Anything for this already exist? I'd hate to re-invent the wheel.

[bastien]

There was a similar questions on www.weberforums.com...the posted reply is below

Option 1 (free and easy). Send them to Google with their search term plus "site:www.example.com" added to the end. This searches on only a particular site.

Option 2. Install a local site indexing engine, such as mnogosearch. It works by spidering your site whenever you tell it to and creating a search index.

Option 3. Buy "real" indexing by Google either by entering into an agreement with them or buying one of their servers ($$$).

Option 4. Write your own. If you want people to search by very simple things this is easy. If you want them to do a google-like search with all of the page data, use one of the other possibilities.