[WEB4LIB] Good search engines functionnalities for relevant and quick search results

[Avi Rappoport]

A lot depends on your specific needs, the size of your site, the 
kinds of pages and more.  For example, a Belgian site search engine 
should support French, Dutch, and German, including extended 
characters such as umlauts, accents and carets.   If you buy a 
package, you will also want to find a company that accepts your 
institutional payment forms and provides local technical support in 
your time zone.

A remote search service might be the easiest and cheapest solution. 
However, if it's located in France, I would be concerned about using 
a remote search service in the US, because of the distance that the 
queries would have to travel.  Two search services with data centers 
in Europe are MondoSearch and SearchEngine.com -- you may want to try 
those out.  If you choose a search engine, take a look at Alkaline, 
Extense, Aurweb, DioWeb, and Albert.

All of these are listed on the SearchTools.com site, 
<http://www.searchtools.com/tools/tools.html>.

I hope that helps,

Avi

At 11:22 PM -0800 3/28/01, Stéphane Dudart wrote:
>Dear list,
>
>We would like to place a search engine on our website. This one has a lot of
>html files and it grows day by
>day. We are currently establish a keyword and description metadata system to
>the site to control
>searching.
>What functionnalities search engines must have for a quick search and a
>relevant result?
>We also look for case studies and local search engine lists.



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