search engine

[Anon]

Hi

My boss wants me to set up a search engine for the company's web site. The web site uses Apache with PHP,MySQL,Perl running on SUN Sparc Solaris. Could you recommend a good search engine.

Thank you, Cindy

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You could use a ready-made one, or create your own! :-)

A simple one is in the articles section of phpbuilder.com, but you may want to change it a little to be more efficient. (I have a better version of it somewhere on disk...)

Another one could be done using MySQL's FULLTEXT feature that lets you search inside TEXT fields for random words/keywords etc. quite effective at a very low implementation cost.